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Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., McClymont, K., Griffin, E., & Carmichael, L. (in press). Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232200

Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places (2023)
Journal Article
House, D., Beebeejaun, Y., Maddrell, A., & McClymont, K. (in press). Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places. Mortality, https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2170218

Cemeteries in the UK and Ireland are typically viewed as a final ‘place of rest’ for the deceased where their remains will not be disturbed. This sense is at least in some part created by the norm of in-perpetuity grave rights in these countries. Yet... Read More about Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places.

On beauty (2022)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H., Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2022). On beauty. Planning Theory and Practice, 23(4), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2022.2113613

“Beauty,” a term that almost defies definition, can be highly emotive in its use: more emotive, we posit, than many other commonplace terms used to frame thinking about the future of space and place. Thus, the relationship between beauty, decision ma... Read More about On beauty.

Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices (2022)
Journal Article
McClymont, K., Madddrell, A., Beebeejaun, Y., McNally, D., & Mathijssen, B. (2022). Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices. Emotion, Space and Society, 44, Article 100895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100895

In this paper we explore migrants' and minorities' memories and memory-making associated with death, funerary and remembrance practices, with particular attention to how this intersects with experiences of migration and/or being part of a cultural or... Read More about Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices.

Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale (2021)
Journal Article
Sheppard, A., & McClymont, K. (2021). Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale. Town Planning Review, 92(5), 561–586. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.18

Planning, at its most basic, is about making better places. In recent years, there has been a positive renewed focus on strengthening the links between planning and the promotion of well-being and good health outcomes. This is a welcome emphasis with... Read More about Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale.

Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services (2021)
Journal Article
McClymont, K., & Sinnett, D. (2021). Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 789925. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.789925

Cemeteries are often included in typologies of green infrastructure features, but there has been little exploration of their role within a multifunctional network of green infrastructure. This paper uses national greenspace data to map the contributi... Read More about Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services.

Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City” (2021)
Journal Article
Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K., Maddrell, A., Mathijssen, B., & McNally, D. (in press). Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City”. Journal of Planning Education and Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x211043275

“Deathscapes” constitute a growing field of research, yet the topic remains widely neglected within urban planning. In this paper, we examine the adequacy of existing provision for death, remembrance, and the disposal of body remains for ethnic minor... Read More about Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City”.

Rules, norms and practices – A comparative study exploring disposal practices and facilities in Northern Europe (2021)
Journal Article
Nordh, H., House, D., Westendorp, M., Maddrell, A., Wingren, C., Kmec, S., …Venbrux, E. (in press). Rules, norms and practices – A comparative study exploring disposal practices and facilities in Northern Europe. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 88(1), 171-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211042138

We identify and analyse practices and management regimes around burial and handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. We analyse management of cemeteries and crematoria gardens, majority practices and prov... Read More about Rules, norms and practices – A comparative study exploring disposal practices and facilities in Northern Europe.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., Croft, N., McClymont, K., Sheppard, A., & Foroughmand-Araabi, H. (2021). The whittling away of wonderful ideas. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, July / August 2021, 242-248