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What impacts are emerging from Covid-19 for urban futures?

Posted on: 8 June 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Professor Tim Dixon on the impact of COVID-19 on cities throughout the world.
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COVID-19 and the ‘old-fashioned’ idea of neighbourhoods

Posted on: 8 June 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Dr Patrícia Canelas and Dr Idalina Baptista write on the opportunity COVID-19 provides to rethink the neighbourhood as an appropriate scale for addressing urban quality of life problems.
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Living in Harmony with Nature

Posted on: 5 June 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Ben Bolgar writes on whether we can use the current pandemic as a catalyst to address the longer-term silent killer of climate change, while engendering healthier behaviour in the short term, then we will avoid a knee-jerk reaction, and future-proof our response for the next generation.
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COVID-19: ‘Fever Hospitals’

Posted on: 11 May 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan write on the fever hospitals of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Covid 19 Hospitals – Back to the Future

Posted on: 1 May 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan write on how the Roman Legionary fortress at Inchtuthil near Perth in Scotland can give us clues as to how we could develop our hospital facilities in the future.
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COVID 19 – Nova et Vetera: Lazaretts of Venice

Posted on: 23 April 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan write on the practice of quarantine in the 14th century.
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How Cities Need to Change, to Avoid Spreading Infections

Posted on: 12 March 2020 Last updated on: 9 June 2021 Written by: gchuoxford
Carl Heneghan and David Howard on how the role of a city and its environment can support or damage health.
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10 May

Street Voice insights: Inviting Jurors

A small team at the University of Oxford is organising a Citizens’ Jury to help answer important questions about how people can travel where they need to in Oxford in a climate-friendly way that promotes health. In the first of…
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06 Apr

The Hidden Cost of Construction

GCHU Intern and MEng Engineering student Eleanor Cosford analyses the effects of embodied energy usage in construction on the environmental impact of buildings.
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28 Mar

Trends in urban sustainable experiments and the importance of post-occupancy testing 

GCHU Intern and BA Geography student Juan Garcia Valencia reviews the current experiment trends in urban sustainability.
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24 Mar

Achieving net zero household energy use

GCHU Intern and MPhys Physics student Lucy Main analyses the energy saving strategies to achieving net zero household energy use.
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14 Mar

GCHU in conversation with ‘Healthy Cities and Communities’ at the World Economic Forum

Dr Juliet Carpenter (GCHU Research Fellow) writes on her recent meeting with the Healthy Cities and Communities team of the World Economic Forum.
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