GCHU intern Callum Young shares insights from his spring internship placement, exploring Oxford’s housing challenges and the potential of empty homes to ease local pressures.
Dream Cities, Real Costs: Funding the Next Generation of Garden Cities and New Towns
In this blog, GCHU intern Amrin Golam revisits the UK’s long-standing ambition to design urban spaces that harmonise housing, employment, and green space.
Banking on Better Cities: Financing Sustainable Urban Growth
In our latest blog, GCHU intern Maria Chow explores diverse financial models used across the Global North and South to fund sustainable urban development, critically examining their effectiveness, limitations, and potential for scalability through global cooperation and innovative tools like digital finance.
Welcoming Our New Visiting Global Research Associates
The Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, is delighted to welcome three distinguished researchers as part of our inaugural GCHU Visiting Global Research Associate Programme. Their collective expertise spans urban design, public health,…
Transport policy? Ask the citizens!
GCHU Research Associate Dr Alison Chisholm shares insight into Oxfordshire citizens’ assembly on transport and travel.
How healthy are Healthy New Towns?
In our latest blog, we highlight the work of GCHU interns Ushika Kidd and Ozan Somyurek who investigated how Healthy New Towns in Oxfordshire promote wellbeing using qualitative and spatial fieldwork, presenting their findings via ArcGIS StoryMap.
Listening Exchanges – listening to opposing perspectives on a contentious community issue
As the final report of the recent GCHU “Listening Exchanges” pilot project is published, Becks Sutton, a mediator on the project, describes the experience of working locally to explore ways of staying in respectful connection with our neighbours when we disagree.
GCHU Podcast Series launched!
The GCHU have today launched a podcast series hosted by GCHU Research Associate and Kellogg College Visiting Fellow Dr Katherine Maxwell discussing COP29 outcomes for sustainable cities. The limited series podcast provides a thought-provoking summary of COP29, drawing on global…
Rethinking Tronchetto: Sustainable Textiles for Venice’s Future
As part of the GCHU’s Summer School blog series, Mia Frleta’s explores reimagining Venice’s Tronchetto island, proposing a sustainable textile factory, Algitura, that uses algae to create eco-friendly fibers, addressing over-reliance on tourism while revitalizing the city’s historical textile industry and offering diverse employment opportunities.
A patchwork of participation: Community-led solutions for Venice’s Tronchetto
As part of the GCHU’s Summer School blog series, Merit Zimmermann proposes a community-led redevelopment of Tronchetto in Venice that prioritizes local residents’ needs by promoting affordable housing, vibrant cultural hubs, and environmental stewardship, while addressing the challenges posed by overtourism and climate change.