Urban Futures – Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation

Sustainable Urban Systems and Urban Futures: A New Urban Science?

GCHU Research Associate, Professor Timothy Dixon explores research themes and approaches to understanding the evolution and development of cities.

24 Sep

Urbanisation Without Cities? Hydraulic Infrastructure and the Ecologies of Vulnerability in the Amazon

In this blog, GCHU Visiting Research Associate Dr Fábio Zuker argues that hydraulic infrastructures extend the urban beyond the city, reshaping Indigenous territories through transformations in hydrology, food systems, and disease ecologies.

21 Sep

Lessons in urban development from small settlements: environmental sustainability

In this blog, GCHU intern, Rui Castellino explores the lessons offered by small settlements for sustainable urban development through community-led governance, local resources, low-carbon living, and protection of cultural and environmental assets.

14 Sep

The Imaginary People who will Fix Britain’s Buildings

This blog by GCHU intern, Moli Birkinshaw, argues that Britain’s ambitious plans to retrofit millions of buildings face a major obstacle of not having enough skilled workers with the right expertise and calls for sustained investment in training, stronger industry standards, and policies that create reliable demand for retrofit.

07 Sep

Planning for Health: Lessons from the New Towns

In this blog, GCHU intern, Grace Baldauf, explores lessons from the UK’s New Towns, showing how urban planning can support health through green spaces, walkability, recreation, and access to healthcare; highlighting the need to plan for the long-term health and changing needs of communities.

02 Sep

Imagined Community: is village life just a dream for people in modern towns and cities?

In this blog, GCHU intern, Greta Stone details ways in which the social functions of historic settlements can influence and be adapted to produce newer, often larger modern developments.

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