The project reimagines Venice’s Tronchetto island as a connected, community-centred and ecologically resilient neighbourhood, showing how thoughtful, small-scale interventions can foster meaningful and lasting urban sustainability.
Urban Futures Across Borders: Reflections from a Visiting Research Associate
GCHU Visiting Global Research Associate Dr Tashanna Walker shares reflections from her time in Oxford, exploring the intersections of urban security, redevelopment, and postcolonial resilience in Kingston, Jamaica, while contributing Caribbean perspectives to global dialogues on urban precarity and policy.
What is an adaptive city and what would it look like if you saw one?
In this blog, GCHU Research Associate Timothy J. Dixon explores the evolution of the smart city concept and why, in an era of escalating climate, social, and economic shocks, cities must go beyond tech-driven solutions to become adaptive urban systems.
How can deliberative democracy support climate justice? A panel discussion
GCHU Research Associate Dr Alison Chisholm shares insights from the Deliberative Democracy and Climate Justice panel discussion held in Oxford as part of the Right Here Right Now global summit.
Interning at the GCHU: What I Learned About Oxford’s Housing Challenges
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.
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.