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.
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.
Beware the buzzword: how can community engagement actually improve housing?
GCHU Intern and BA Chinese Studies student Rebecca Gardner investigates how the UK’s housing crisis, extending beyond supply shortages to encompass monocultural estates and the pitfalls of community engagement, necessitates a nuanced approach, proposing Regional Building Hubs as a potential solution to empower communities, foster collaboration with small-medium sized builders, and address the multifaceted challenges inhibiting effective participation in housing planning.
Towards the regionalisation of Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
GCHU Intern and MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy student Helena Catalán Busquets investigates the benefits of the Community Land Trust model to address housing problems in the UK.
Regional building material hubs: embedding viable circularity in the construction sector in the UK
GCHU Intern and DPhil Sustainable Urban Development candidate Yaseen Raad discusses the UK construction industry’s waste challenge, advocating for circular economy principles and the establishment of circularity hubs to promote resource exchange and awareness for sustainable urban development.
Environmental Stewardship and Housing in the UK
GCHU Intern and Master of Public Policy (MPP) student Cynthia Wamukota explores the interplay between environmental stewardship and housing needs in the United Kingdom.
Environmental impacts of Regional Building Hubs: a long-term scope
GCHU Intern and BA Geography student Erika Nakata Moussis explores the long-term environmental impact of the Regional Building Hub concept.
Supply chain integration crucial to advancing sustainable housing in the UK
GCHU Intern and BA Geography student Matthew Grigg explores the role of supply chain integration in developing sustainable housing in the UK.