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Category: GCHU Blogs (page 6)

What Creates Healthy Cities?

Posted on: 22 July 2022 Last updated on: 10 October 2025 Written by: gchuoxford
Following the conclusion of the Commission on Creating Healthy Cities, the GCHU has published the Commission’s report following a launch event at the House of Lords.
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#StreetVoice Citizens’ Jury – OCC Cabinet meeting

Posted on: 21 July 2022 Last updated on: 16 September 2025 Written by: gchuoxford
An update on project progress after the initial report for the Street Voice Citizens’ Jury was discussed at Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet meeting on 19th July 2022.
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#StreetVoice Citizens’ Jury – Final session

Posted on: 15 July 2022 Last updated on: 15 July 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
The doors have closed on the final Street Voice Citizens’ Jury, and the Street Voice team are now hard at work, bringing together four days of fascinating discussions and deliberations into a Report for Oxfordshire County Council. The final session…
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#StreetVoice Citizens’ Jury – Second and third sessions

Posted on: 1 July 2022 Last updated on: 1 July 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
Highlights and reflections from the second and third sessions of the #StreetVoice Citizens’ Jury.

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#StreetVoice Citizens’ Jury – First session

Posted on: 13 June 2022 Last updated on: 14 June 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
Highlights and reflections from the first session of the #StreetVoice Citizens’ Jury.
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GCHU Micro-internships on Healthy Cities

Posted on: 22 May 2022 Last updated on: 22 July 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
Three interns that joined the GCHU to contribute to the work of the Commission on Creating Healthy Cities and help develop pages of the Healthy Cities Toolkit, share their experiences of working at the centre.
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Street Voice insights: Inviting Jurors

Posted on: 10 May 2022 Last updated on: 14 June 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
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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The Hidden Cost of Construction

Posted on: 6 April 2022 Last updated on: 6 April 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
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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Achieving net zero household energy use

Posted on: 24 March 2022 Last updated on: 28 March 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
GCHU Intern and MPhys Physics student Lucy Main analyses the energy saving strategies to achieving net zero household energy use.
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GCHU in conversation with ‘Healthy Cities and Communities’ at the World Economic Forum

Posted on: 14 March 2022 Last updated on: 14 March 2022 Written by: gchuoxford
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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03 Jun

Is Oxford an Age-Friendly City? A Student Perspective

In this blog, GCHU intern, Stefania Malos reflects on the lessons she learnt from the Age-Friendly Oxford project during her internship at the GCHU.
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21 May

Healthy cities are not built – they are lived: Enactment, negotiation and urban systems in Barton and beyond

In this blog, GCHU Visiting Research Associate, Dr Mirjam Schindler, reflects on how healthy cities are not simply designed, but continuously enacted through everyday socio-spatial practices, negotiation, and wider urban systems, drawing on research from Barton and beyond.
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22 Apr

Urban Form, Climate and Health: Reflections from Oxford and the Global South

In this blog, GCHU Global Visiting Research Associate, Dr. Karol Carminatti Baumgärtner, explores how urban form, climate and public health can be integrated to support more effective planning in small and medium-sized cities facing the climate crisis.
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26 Feb

Visions for reconstructing Gaza’s urban infrastructure:  Phoenix from the ashes?

In this blog, GCHU Research Associate Timothy J. Dixon examines the competing visions for Gaza’s future and looks at the implications for reconstructing urban infrastructure, including health services.
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11 Feb

What do Britain’s new towns teach us about healthy urbanism?

GCHU intern Hannah Poultney reflects on some of the lessons learnt from Britain’s new towns which offers benefits beyond providing housing to improving health and well-being, protecting biodiversity and addressing the climate change challenge.
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