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Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This themed paper develops the findings of Indicators of Healthy Architecture—a Systematic Literature Review (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z) including consideration of implications for built environment practitioners and how this informs... Read More about Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review.

East Quay: Designing for change (2021)
Physical Artefact

East Quay is a £7m cultural development, much-lauded in the architectural press, and the recipient of multiple awards including SW RIBA Building of the Year. Designed by Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio, East Quay was commissioned and is now run by O... Read More about East Quay: Designing for change.

Challenges associated with monitoring urban trees and the benefits of collecting baseline data at planting (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine

This article explains how monitoring urban trees is essential to learning how urban forests and tree planting initiatives change over time and how to optimise their benefits we must initiate data collection at planting.

Developing a framework for describing, planning and evaluating empowerment in architectural making projects (2021)
Thesis

The aim of this practice based thesis is to develop a framework to describe and evaluate the empowerment that takes place in the course of participatory ‘making’ in an architectural context. ‘Making’ research in architectural contexts is widespread,... Read More about Developing a framework for describing, planning and evaluating empowerment in architectural making projects.

East Quay, Watchet (2021)
Physical Artefact

A cultural centre developed as a piece of practice based research to enable social transformations(s)

Social value, infrastructure and stakeholder engagement: a complex triangle (2021)
Journal Article

Infrastructure is critical for the economic and social prosperity of society. Some large infrastructure projects are also critical for the future of society due to their intergenerational nature and long lifespan. Understanding the social value of in... Read More about Social value, infrastructure and stakeholder engagement: a complex triangle.

Renting in the makeshift city: Governance, politics and technologies of backyard rental housing in Cape Town, South Africa (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Renting is an important yet often forgotten reality of the 'makeshift city'. Millions of poor households rely on cheap rental accommodation in informal settlements, townships or inner-city buildings to get a foothold in the city. Informal rental acco... Read More about Renting in the makeshift city: Governance, politics and technologies of backyard rental housing in Cape Town, South Africa.

Technology and travel (2021)
Book Chapter

This book chapter explores our undertanding of the complex relationship between technology and travel and the digital age continues to unfold.

Reducing carbon from heritage buildings: The importance of residents’ views, values and behaviours (2021)
Journal Article

Significant energy and carbon originate in the existing built environment and retrofit is therefore a key carbon reduction strategy. However heritage buildings -comprising around 20% of UK buildings- are challenging to retrofit appropriately due to t... Read More about Reducing carbon from heritage buildings: The importance of residents’ views, values and behaviours.

Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings (2021)
Journal Article

What are the opportunities and challenges for upscaling the energy retrofit of heritage buildings? Heritage buildings comprise approximately 20% of the UK building stock and are challenging to retrofit sensitively because of their heritage values and... Read More about Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings.

The impact of 2020 low traffic neighbourhoods on fire service emergency response times, in London, UK (2021)
Journal Article

Between March and September 2020, 72 ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) were implemented in London. We examined the impact on fire brigade emergency response times in October 2020-February 2021 (‘post’), as compared to the same months in the previou... Read More about The impact of 2020 low traffic neighbourhoods on fire service emergency response times, in London, UK.

Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto (2021)
Journal Article

Transportation equity advocates recommend improving public transit in low-income neighbourhoods to alleviate socio-spatial inequalities and increase quality of life. However, transportation planners often overlook transit investments in neighbourhood... Read More about Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto.

Everyday communism in urban gardens in Cardiff, Wales (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Increasing interest in urban gardens has framed them in diverse ways—from commons or commoning (Engel-Di Mauro 2018), the right to the city (Purcell and Tyman 2015), and food justice (Tornaghi 2017). However, in recognising that the politics of urban... Read More about Everyday communism in urban gardens in Cardiff, Wales.

Photo-actuation stress of ultra-drawn, chain-extended polyethylene (2021)
Journal Article

The influence of solid-state drawing on the photo-actuation stress of oriented semi-crystalline polymers is explored experimentally and theoretically. Photo-responsive and ultra-drawn linear polyethylenes (PEs) containing a commercial benzotriazole d... Read More about Photo-actuation stress of ultra-drawn, chain-extended polyethylene.

Impacts of 2020 low traffic neighbourhoods in London on road traffic injuries (2021)
Journal Article

We assessed the impacts of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) implemented in 2020 on road traffic injuries. We used police data from October-December 2018/2019 (pre) compared with the same period in 2020 (post). We found absolute numbers of injuries i... Read More about Impacts of 2020 low traffic neighbourhoods in London on road traffic injuries.

IT-oriented infrastructural development, urban co-dependencies, and the reconfiguration of everyday politics in Pune, India (2020)
Journal Article

Existing scholarship on postcolonial urbanisms has judiciously analysed the role played by the state and private capital in the expansion of global information-technology clusters and exclusive high-tech knowledge enclaves that have emerged across di... Read More about IT-oriented infrastructural development, urban co-dependencies, and the reconfiguration of everyday politics in Pune, India.

Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The act of dwelling is a primal creation of meaningful place and something that every human strives to achieve (Seamon and Mugerauer, 1985), and as such the home ''is very charged with meaning because it is closely involved with the most intimate asp... Read More about Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs.

Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital (2020)
Book

Academic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling.

Based up... Read More about Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital.

Sunlight (2020)
Digital Artefact

A film about the work, research and approach of Gianni Botsford

Implications of density bonus tool for urban planning: relaxing floor area ratio (FAR) regulations in Tehran (2020)
Journal Article

This article, by using empirical evidence from Tehran, looks beyond the West to explore the implications of the reliance of the entrepreneurial local government on private capital for the urban planning system. The main premise of this paper is that... Read More about Implications of density bonus tool for urban planning: relaxing floor area ratio (FAR) regulations in Tehran.