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Renting in the informal city: The role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Rice, L., Scheba, A., & Harris, A. (2023). Renting in the informal city: The role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies, 61(2), 209-233. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000034

In South Africa, informal rental accommodation constructed in the backyards of formal houses is the fastest growing housing segment. These backyard dwellings (BDs) are makeshift structures made from timber frames, metal sheets or wooden planks. Despi... Read More about Renting in the informal city: The role of dignity in upgrading backyard dwellings in Cape Town, South Africa.

Making demands on government: Theorizing determinants of backyard residents' collective action in Cape Town, South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Harris, A. S., Scheba, A., & Rice, L. (2023). Making demands on government: Theorizing determinants of backyard residents' collective action in Cape Town, South Africa. African Studies Review, 66(3), 698 - 720. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.10

Informality is growing with Africa's rapid urbanization. Much like residents of other types of informal housing, backyard dwellers face overall poor living conditions and political marginalization. However, backyard residents are in an ambiguous lega... Read More about Making demands on government: Theorizing determinants of backyard residents' collective action in Cape Town, South Africa.

Towards a combined physical and social evaluation of climate vulnerability in coastal urban megacities (2023)
Journal Article
Kantamaneni, K., Li, Q., Wu, H., Zhu, M., Apostolopoulou, A., Xu, W., …Pushparaj, R. R. B. (2023). Towards a combined physical and social evaluation of climate vulnerability in coastal urban megacities. Water, 15(4), 712. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15040712

Coastal urban megacities across Asia face significant risks from climate change, including coastal flooding, high temperatures, urban heat island impacts and air pollution. These hazards are associated with negative impacts on infrastructure, communi... Read More about Towards a combined physical and social evaluation of climate vulnerability in coastal urban megacities.

Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers (2022)
Journal Article
Newbutt, N., Rice, L., Lemaignan, S., Daly, J., Charisi, V., & Conley, I. (2022). Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers. Interaction Studies, 23(2), 204-242. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.21031.new

Social robots have the potential to support autistic school children with their wellbeing. This research reveals how a co-design approach with autistic children and their teachers was undertaken. Focus groups with autistic children and teachers colla... Read More about Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers.

50 ways to regeneratively reimagine our High Streets. A co-creating workshop. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Sara, R., Rice, L., & Doron, H. (2022, November). 50 ways to regeneratively reimagine our High Streets. A co-creating workshop. Presented at Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference 'Building Ground for Climate Collectivism', Pratt Institute, New York, US

This co-authoring workshop provides a collectivist space for participants who have been involved in radical rethinking of High Streets/Main streets internationally to work together and contribute to the future and imagined role of these spaces. Tradi... Read More about 50 ways to regeneratively reimagine our High Streets. A co-creating workshop..

“It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children (2022)
Journal Article
Lemaignan, S., Newbutt, N., Rice, L., & Daly, J. (in press). “It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children. International Journal of Social Robotics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00928-4

For a period of 3 weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school for autistic children. The robot’s behaviours and integration into the school were co-designed with the children and teache... Read More about “It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children.

Physical comfort in our homes: An architectural perspective (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Tarazi, D., Sara, R., Redford, P., & Rice, L. (in press). Physical comfort in our homes: An architectural perspective.

The current paper investigates the relationship between the physical comfort in homes (warmth, light, and ventilation) and inhabitants' psychological well-being. In particular, the paper looks at users' perception of home, and the role of satisfactio... Read More about Physical comfort in our homes: An architectural perspective.

Health, economic and social development challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic: Strategies for multiple and interconnected issues (2022)
Journal Article
Panneer, S., Kantamaneni, K., Palaniswamy, U., Bhat, L., Ramesh Babu Pushparaj, R., Rajasekharan Nayar, K., …Rice, L. (2022). Health, economic and social development challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic: Strategies for multiple and interconnected issues. Healthcare, 10(5), Article 770. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050770

The COVID-19-pandemic-related economic and social crises are leading to huge challenges for all spheres of human life across the globe. Various challenges highlighted by this pandemic include, but are not limited to, the need for global health cooper... Read More about Health, economic and social development challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic: Strategies for multiple and interconnected issues.

Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index (2022)
Journal Article
Kantamaneni, K., Panneer, S., Sudha Rani, N. N., Palaniswamy, U., Bhat, L. D., Jimenez-Bescos, C., & Rice, L. (2022). Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index. Sustainability, 14(6), Article 3472. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063472

Coastal hazards, particularly cyclones, floods, erosion and storm surges, are emerging as a cause for major concern in the coastal regions of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. Serious coastal disaster events have become more common in recent decades... Read More about Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index.

A multi-data geospatial approach for understanding flood risk in the coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India (2022)
Journal Article
George, S. L., Kantamaneni, K., V, R. A., Prasad, K. A., Shekhar, S., Panneer, S., …Balasubramani, K. (2022). A multi-data geospatial approach for understanding flood risk in the coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India. Earth, 3(1), 383-400. https://doi.org/10.3390/earth3010023

The coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India, are prone to floods, the most common disaster experienced in this region almost every year. This research aims to identify flood risks in the coastal plain region of Tamil Nadu, delineated through a watershed... Read More about A multi-data geospatial approach for understanding flood risk in the coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India.

Are current UK coastal defences good enough for Tomorrow? An assessment of vulnerability to coastal erosion (2022)
Journal Article
Kantamaneni, K., Rice, L., Du, X., Allali, B., & Yenneti, K. (in press). Are current UK coastal defences good enough for Tomorrow? An assessment of vulnerability to coastal erosion. Coastal Management, 50(2), 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2022.2022971

Coastal vulnerability and its physical, economic and social consequences at national and international scales is of high scientific, political and policy interest. Anthropogenic climate change and coastal erosion threaten the very fabric of a society... Read More about Are current UK coastal defences good enough for Tomorrow? An assessment of vulnerability to coastal erosion.

The second wave of COVID-19 and beyond: Rural healthcare (2022)
Journal Article
Panneer, S., Bhat, L., Rice, L., & Kantamaneni, K. (2022). The second wave of COVID-19 and beyond: Rural healthcare. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(2), 21-24

There are increasing signs that SARS-CoV-2 has started to spread to rural areas in India. It impacts people’s health, lives, and public health infrastructure that is already strained from a lack of resources. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in... Read More about The second wave of COVID-19 and beyond: Rural healthcare.

The great lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 and its implications: Lessons for low and middle-income countries (2022)
Journal Article
Panneer, S., Kantamaneni, K., Akkayasamy, V. S., Susairaj, A. X., Panda, P. K., Acharya, S. S., …Pushparaj, R. R. B. (2022). The great lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 and its implications: Lessons for low and middle-income countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), Article 610. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010610

Concern for public health has been growing with the increasing volume of cases of COVID-19 in India. To combat this pandemic, India has implemented nationwide lockdowns, and unlocking phases continue with certain restrictions in different parts of th... Read More about The great lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 and its implications: Lessons for low and middle-income countries.

Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article
Meraz, F., Marco, E., Rice, L., & Drozynski, C. (2021). Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing. Charrette, 7(2), 1-9

Nurturing Architecture explores how an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and supporting growth and development, might be understood as a founding principle for architectural education and practice. The term allows multiple interpretations, whic... Read More about Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing.

Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa (2021)
Book Chapter
Lavinia, B., Bibi, B., & Rice, L. (2021). Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa. In K. Comfort, & . M. Papalas (Eds.), New Directions in Flânerie: Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In late 2019, a poetry-writing “walkshop” in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa, was organized in collaboration with two local arts organizations. In this chapter, the walkshop is contextualized within debates on flânerie in South African cities, and att... Read More about Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa.

Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L., & Drane, M. (2021, October). Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review. Presented at 5th Healthy City Design 2021 International Congress, Virtual

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.

UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children (2021)
Presentation / Conference
lemaignan, S., newbutt, N., Rice, L., daly, J., & charisi, V. (2021, September). UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children. Paper presented at IROS: The Roles of Robotics in Achieving the UN's Social Development Goals, Prague

For a period of three weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school, with a focus on supporting the well-being of autistic children. Our methodology to design and embed the robot among th... Read More about UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children.

Renting in the makeshift city: Governance, politics and technologies of backyard rental housing in Cape Town, South Africa (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Scheba, A., Rice, L., & Harris, A. (2021, July). Renting in the makeshift city: Governance, politics and technologies of backyard rental housing in Cape Town, South Africa. Presented at EADI General Conference 2021: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice, The Hague, Netherlands

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.

Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2021, February). Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities. Presented at Economics Webinar Series, Malaysia

The presentation examines the economic implications of the relationship between the design of cities and urban areas and the resultant health outcomes for the human population. There is now good evidence linking the design of urban areas to differing... Read More about Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities.

Multistakeholder participation in disaster management—the case of the covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Panneer, S., Kantamaneni, K., Pushparaj, R. R. B., Shekhar, S., Bhat, L., & Rice, L. (2021). Multistakeholder participation in disaster management—the case of the covid-19 pandemic. Healthcare, 9(2), 203-222. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9020203

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting society’s health, economy, environment and development. COVID-19 has claimed many lives across the globe and severely impacted the livelihood of a considerable section of the world’s popul... Read More about Multistakeholder participation in disaster management—the case of the covid-19 pandemic.

Designing healthy and sustainable cities: Public health and architecture for wellbeing (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2021, February). Designing healthy and sustainable cities: Public health and architecture for wellbeing. Presented at Resilient and Liveable City Planning Conference, India

In light of the climate crisis and emerging health challenges, there is an urgent need to address these issues in an integrated approach. The presentation highlights how the design (and retrofit) of the built environment can help to improve both huma... Read More about Designing healthy and sustainable cities: Public health and architecture for wellbeing.

Healthy cities, diseasogenic cities and the global south (2021)
Book Chapter
Rice, L. (2021). Healthy cities, diseasogenic cities and the global south. In A. A. R. Ioris (Ed.), Environment and Development: Challenges, Policies and Practices (37-65). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55416-3_2

There are growing urban health issues globally, whereby social and environmental living conditions in cities and towns are contributing to poor health outcomes. The Global South is predicted to house almost all new cities and the majority of all urba... Read More about Healthy cities, diseasogenic cities and the global south.

Healthy BIM: The feasibility of integrating architecture health indicators using a building information model (BIM) computer system (2020)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2021). Healthy BIM: The feasibility of integrating architecture health indicators using a building information model (BIM) computer system. Archnet-IJAR, 15(1), 252-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/arch-07-2020-0133

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced billions of people into lockdown; foregrounding the important relationship between architecture and health. In this context, there is heightened urgency for the construction sector to improve the healthiness... Read More about Healthy BIM: The feasibility of integrating architecture health indicators using a building information model (BIM) computer system.

Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Dahlia, T., Sara, R., & Rice, L. (2020, November). Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs. Presented at Architectural Humanities Research Association ‘Housing and the City', University of Nottingham, UK

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.

After Covid-19: Urban design as spatial medicine (2020)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2023). After Covid-19: Urban design as spatial medicine. URBAN DESIGN International, 28, 97–102. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-020-00142-6

This article draws out key implications for urban designers from the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly the relation between urban design and health. The entire world is facing the same acute health emergency of Covid-19 which is already impacting half... Read More about After Covid-19: Urban design as spatial medicine.

Indicators of healthy architecture: A systematic literature review (2020)
Journal Article
Rice, L., & Drane, M. (2020). Indicators of healthy architecture: A systematic literature review. Journal of Urban Health, 97, 899–911. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z

The design of the built environment plays an important role as a determinant of health. As a society, we are spending an increasing proportion of our time indoors and now spend over 80% of our life inside, so the design of buildings can greatly impac... Read More about Indicators of healthy architecture: A systematic literature review.

Assessing the vulnerability of agriculture systems to climate change in coastal areas: A novel index (2020)
Journal Article
Kantamaneni, K., Rice, L., Yenneti, K., & Campos, L. C. (2020). Assessing the vulnerability of agriculture systems to climate change in coastal areas: A novel index. Sustainability, 12(11), 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114771

This study proposes a novel index to evaluate agricultural vulnerability to climate change in coastal areas, using the case of Andhra Pradesh, the state with the second longest coastline in India. Field data was collected from more than 1000 farmers... Read More about Assessing the vulnerability of agriculture systems to climate change in coastal areas: A novel index.

Towards an architecture for wellbeing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Rice, L., & Sara, R. (2020). Towards an architecture for wellbeing. In 7th International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Built Environment Proceedings. , (75-85)

Architectural design can have profound implications on human health and planetary wellbeing. The built environment is currently one of the most important determinants of health and wellbeing. As human health comprises of physical, mental and social a... Read More about Towards an architecture for wellbeing.

Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking (2020)
Journal Article
Sara, R., Jones, M., & Rice, L. (2021). Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking. CoDesign, 17(4), 493-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2020.1761985

Austerity has led to a growing interest in small-scale urban practices that engage community groups in participatory placemaking as an alternative to developing government or commercially funded parks and urban spaces. These approaches draw on bottom... Read More about Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking.

Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England (2020)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Marco, E., Pilkington, P., & Rice, L. (2022). Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England. Cities and Health, 6(2), 326-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1736738

Architects can play a key role in the wider public health workforce, in ensuring building and urban design is health promoting. However, there is no requirement to teach health by architectural accreditation bodies across Europe. To evaluate the long... Read More about Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England.

A health map for architecture: The determinants of health and wellbeing in buildings (2019)
Book Chapter
Rice, L. (2019). A health map for architecture: The determinants of health and wellbeing in buildings. In M. Jones, L. Rice, & F. Meraz (Eds.), Designing for Health and Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (155-184). Delaware, United States: Vernon Press

The health crisis facing society, whereby most humans suffer illness, is related to the design of the built environment. The chapter identifies key issues for built environment design professionals to improve the health of architectural environments.... Read More about A health map for architecture: The determinants of health and wellbeing in buildings.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (2019)
Book
Meraz, F., Rice, L., & Jones, M. (2019). F. Meraz, L. Rice, & M. Jones (Eds.), Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society. Delaware, United States: Vernon Press

Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from,... Read More about Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society.

A guide to architecture for the public health workforce (2019)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Pilkington, P., & Rice, L. (2020). A guide to architecture for the public health workforce. Public Health, 178, 120-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.09.013

Background Public health and environmental challenges facing the world in the 21st century, including the ageing population, increasing urbanisation, rise of non-communicable diseases and climate instability, require an interdisciplinary response.... Read More about A guide to architecture for the public health workforce.

Nature-based solutions for urban development and tourism (2019)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (in press). Nature-based solutions for urban development and tourism. International Journal of Tourism Cities, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-05-2019-0069

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how nature-based solutions (NBS) are being used in city areas to improve environmental conditions and increase tourism. This research examines the drivers behind, and impacts of, the application of NBS... Read More about Nature-based solutions for urban development and tourism.

The role of data analytics in coproducing healthy cities (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2019, July). The role of data analytics in coproducing healthy cities. Paper presented at Urban analytics at the interface between environment, human health and behaviour, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Creating ‘Healthy Cities’ is one of the grand challenges facing society in the 21st Century part of which requires imaginative, interdisciplinary research practices. The research explores the emerging relationship between innovative data analytic tec... Read More about The role of data analytics in coproducing healthy cities.

Codesigning a low-carbon roadmap for healthy architecture (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2019, June). Codesigning a low-carbon roadmap for healthy architecture. Paper presented at Transitioning to Energy Efficient and Carbon Neutral Buildings - Developing a Roadmap for Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Over the last two decades, there has been considerable progress in developing solutions (mostly technological) for the design and construction of sustainable, low-carbon architecture and built environment. More recently, there has been success (albei... Read More about Codesigning a low-carbon roadmap for healthy architecture.

Codesigning blue infrastructure and water resources for healthier built environments (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2019, April). Codesigning blue infrastructure and water resources for healthier built environments. Paper presented at Water Resources: management and sustainability in Jordan from pre-history to the future, Amman, Jordan

Urban water management plays an important role as part of delivering healthy built and natural environments. With over half of the world population using poor or inappropriate sanitation, cities and buildings are a significant cause of contamination... Read More about Codesigning blue infrastructure and water resources for healthier built environments.

The nature and extent of healthy architecture: the current state of progress (2019)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2019). The nature and extent of healthy architecture: the current state of progress. Archnet-IJAR, 13(2), 244-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-11-2018-0005

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The design of the built environment is a determinant of health. Accordingly, there is an increasing need for greater harmonization of the architectural profession and public health. However, there is a lac... Read More about The nature and extent of healthy architecture: the current state of progress.

The transformation of agro-climatic resources of the Altai region under changing climate conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Maximova, N., Kantamaneni, K., Morkovkin, G., Arnaut, D., & Rice, L. (2019). The transformation of agro-climatic resources of the Altai region under changing climate conditions. Agriculture, 9(4), 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture9040068

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This research examines the transformation of the agro-climatic conditions of the Altai region as a result of climate change. The climate of the Altai region in Russia is sharply continental an... Read More about The transformation of agro-climatic resources of the Altai region under changing climate conditions.

Endocrine disrupting compounds removal methods from wastewater in the United Kingdom: A review (2019)
Journal Article
Gadupudi, C., Rice, L., Xiao, L., & Kantamaneni, K. (in press). Endocrine disrupting compounds removal methods from wastewater in the United Kingdom: A review. Sci, 1(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1010015.v1

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are contaminants with estrogenic or androgenic activity that negatively impact human and animal communities. These compounds have become one of the significant concerns for wastewater treatment in recent decades.... Read More about Endocrine disrupting compounds removal methods from wastewater in the United Kingdom: A review.

A systematic review of coastal vulnerability assessment studies along Andhra Pradesh, India: A critical evaluation of data gathering, risk levels and mitigation strategies (2019)
Journal Article
Kantamaneni, K., Rice, L., Sudha Rani, N. N. V., Sur, K., Thayaparan, M., Kulatunga, U., …Campos, L. C. (2019). A systematic review of coastal vulnerability assessment studies along Andhra Pradesh, India: A critical evaluation of data gathering, risk levels and mitigation strategies. Water, 11(2), 393. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020393

The establishment and alteration of any coastal feature is largely dependent upon complex hydrological and geomorphologic processes. Therefore, understanding hazard factors and threat risk level is crucial for mitigating risk in coastal zones. This s... Read More about A systematic review of coastal vulnerability assessment studies along Andhra Pradesh, India: A critical evaluation of data gathering, risk levels and mitigation strategies.

Healthy architecture: A conceptual framework for the integration of public health into the architectural profession (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, October). Healthy architecture: A conceptual framework for the integration of public health into the architectural profession. Paper presented at World Health Organisation International Healthy Cities Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland

The WHO Healthy City strategy places focus on the role the built environment plays as a determinant of health. There is a well-established need for intersectoral work, collaboration and research in order to improve the health of urban populations. Al... Read More about Healthy architecture: A conceptual framework for the integration of public health into the architectural profession.

Improving place-based health: Innovative use of digital technologies to measure health & wellbeing on University Campus environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, September). Improving place-based health: Innovative use of digital technologies to measure health & wellbeing on University Campus environments. Presented at Advancing work, health and well-being in rural and urban Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia

This research examines the relationship between University campuses and mental wellbeing. The environmental setting of a campus plays a significant role in determining the mental health and wellbeing outcomes of individuals. The peak time for the eme... Read More about Improving place-based health: Innovative use of digital technologies to measure health & wellbeing on University Campus environments.

Updating the determinants of health model in the information age (2018)
Journal Article
Rice, L., & Sara, R. (2019). Updating the determinants of health model in the information age. Health Promotion International, 34(6), 1241-1249. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day064

In 1991, Dahlgren and Whitehead produced a highly influential model of the determinants of health that has since been used by numerous national and international public health organizations globally. The purpose of the model is to enable intervention... Read More about Updating the determinants of health model in the information age.

The healthy university: The integration of public health into University campus developments to improve wellbeing (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, September). The healthy university: The integration of public health into University campus developments to improve wellbeing. Paper presented at City Health International Conference, Odessa, Ukraine

Improving health and wellbeing is seen as one of the key challenges of our time. The challenges cannot be resolved solely through local government or national health services; instead it requires much greater integration from all sectors of the econo... Read More about The healthy university: The integration of public health into University campus developments to improve wellbeing.

Healthy cities and tourism: integrating healthy lifestyles and tourism practices (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rice, L. (2018). Healthy cities and tourism: integrating healthy lifestyles and tourism practices.

Tourism is transforming many societies, economies and cities. As tourism increases globally, to hitherto unprecedented numbers, there are corresponding transformations in the urban environments catering for tourist practices. However, there is a dive... Read More about Healthy cities and tourism: integrating healthy lifestyles and tourism practices.

Designing health equity in disaster affected urban areas: From hard engineering to holistic engineering (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, August). Designing health equity in disaster affected urban areas: From hard engineering to holistic engineering. Presented at Building Resilience in Flood Disaster Management in Northern Peru, Peru

Making cities more resilient to disasters, such as floods, is a fundamental aspect of maintaining a healthy urban population. Approaches to flood disaster management can also contribute to broader improvements to public health if implemented correctl... Read More about Designing health equity in disaster affected urban areas: From hard engineering to holistic engineering.

Improving social and environmental resilience through the development of healthier urban and rural environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, July). Improving social and environmental resilience through the development of healthier urban and rural environments. Poster presented at Social Ecological Resilience to River Floods and Coastal Disasters, Brazil

The research focuses on how to make urban and rural settlements greener, healthier and more resilient. The increase in the global population combined with massive urbanisation is increasing need for risk resilience from disasters, particularly in coa... Read More about Improving social and environmental resilience through the development of healthier urban and rural environments.

Co-designing the healthy city; approaches for integrating new technologies and collaborative working (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, July). Co-designing the healthy city; approaches for integrating new technologies and collaborative working. Paper presented at Data Analytics for Future Cities Research, Danang, Vietnam

The research focuses on healthy cities, particularly how to make urban environments healthier, more sustainable and more liveable. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals have replaced their Millennium Development Goals with much more of a focus on he... Read More about Co-designing the healthy city; approaches for integrating new technologies and collaborative working.

The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, June). The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities. Presented at The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities., Xian, China

The research examines innovative approaches to designing new urban areas and retrofitting existing cities to enable healthier outcomes. The design and layout of the built environment is a significant determinant of human health. Simultaneously, achie... Read More about The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities.

Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, March). Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments. Paper presented at S.Arch: 6th International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, Havana, Cuba

The built environment is the location where the majority of the world’s population resides. Urban residents spend over 90% of their time indoors. Yet the design of the built environment is also linked to unhealthy lifestyles. How we design cities and... Read More about Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments.

Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, January). Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities. Presented at Localising Strategies for Making Cities Resilient to Disasters Workshop, Philippines

In 2015, the UN adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR 2015-2030) with the goal of reducing disaster risks and the consequent loss of life and livelihoods. As part of this goal, the UNISDR produced the framework ‘Ten Essenti... Read More about Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities.

An investigation of the impact of flood defences on UK residential house prices (2018)
Journal Article
Still, O., & Lamond, J. (2018). An investigation of the impact of flood defences on UK residential house prices

The UK has always experienced flooding, and during the 20th and 21st century numerous flood events caused momentous damage to the state and value of property, occasionally causing loss of life. The detrimental impact of flooding in the UK has height... Read More about An investigation of the impact of flood defences on UK residential house prices.

The language of the unheard: Social media and riot subculture/s (2017)
Book Chapter
Rice, L. (2017). The language of the unheard: Social media and riot subculture/s. In .. The Subcultures Network (Ed.), Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise (47-77). London: Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter examines the relationships between social media, subculture identity and riots. In 2011 riots in Bristol (UK) attracted global media coverage. These riots were one of the first in the UK where social media played a significant role. Soci... Read More about The language of the unheard: Social media and riot subculture/s.

Healthy cities: Integrating healthy lifestyles and sustainable environments (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2017, September). Healthy cities: Integrating healthy lifestyles and sustainable environments. Presented at Sixth International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, Toronto, Canada

Many of the drivers for climate change are caused by human behaviour, particularly the buildings and cities we live in. Yet solutions to climate change are often too focused on environmental issues that sideline human concerns. Most illnesses that so... Read More about Healthy cities: Integrating healthy lifestyles and sustainable environments.

Healthy architecture: Designing health into architectural research (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2017, May). Healthy architecture: Designing health into architectural research. Presented at Design Research: Process and Authorship, Bristol, Uk

As a society, we spend 90% of out time indoors and only 10% outdoors. Yet much of the focus for healthy cities is on outdoor space and external environments. Whilst it is important to consider all aspects of a healthy city, at present there is a disp... Read More about Healthy architecture: Designing health into architectural research.

The political space of design research (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2016, May). The political space of design research. Presented at Process and Space - The Political Turn of Design Research Symposium, Bristol, UK

The research explores the political implications of the design, governance, and ownership of public space and architectural environments. There are myriad criticisms of the current diminution of public space and the shift towards privately-owned and... Read More about The political space of design research.

Ebenezer Gate Pocket Park (2016)
Digital Artefact
Sara, R., Jones, M., Rice, L., Daniels, S., & de Graft-Johnson, A. (2016). Ebenezer Gate Pocket Park

The Hands-on-Bristol collective worked with local residents, community groups artists, architects and makers to co-create a community run pocket park. The research aim underpinning the project was to use action-based design-research processes to expl... Read More about Ebenezer Gate Pocket Park.

The production of informal space: A case study of an urban community garden in England (2015)
Thesis
Rice, L. The production of informal space: A case study of an urban community garden in England. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/838158

This research explores the production of informal spaces in England. Informal spaces are those used by people who do not own the land. The research focused on how such a space is produced, through a variety of processes and activities. The use and f... Read More about The production of informal space: A case study of an urban community garden in England.

Informal architecture/s (2015)
Book Chapter
Rice, L. (2015). Informal architecture/s. In L. Rice, & D. Littlefield (Eds.), Transgression: Towards an Expanded Field of Architecture (87-101). London: Routledge

This chapter is a critical examination of the architecture/s of informal cities. Informal cities will house the majority of the world’s urban population by the middle of this century. The scale of this new development is unprecedented in its scale, e... Read More about Informal architecture/s.

The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid (2014)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2014). The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid. Culture Unbound, 6(1), 981-996. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146981

The paper describes the transformation of derelict land into a ‘town-green’ and the role legislation played in transforming social and natural relationships. Town-green denotes a legal status under the Great Britain Commons Act (2006) that protects c... Read More about The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid.

Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture (2014)
Book
Rice, L., & Littlefield, D. (2014). Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture. Oxford: Taylor & Francis

The potency of the word “transgress” is hardly reflected in its Latin etymology – to go or walk across. The language is benign, but symbolically loaded: to violate, to infringe, to go beyond the boundaries. To transgress is to break, violate, infring... Read More about Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture.

Carnival: Performed transgressions (2012)
Book Chapter
Sara, R. (2012). Carnival: Performed transgressions. In L. Rice (Ed.), Architecture + Transgression (60-67). Bristol: Architecture Centre, Bristol

Within a book on architecture and transgression, this chapter explores the way in which urban acts of transgression such as zombie walks, urban beaches, street parties, illegal raves, street interventions (sofas, cushions on streets), pop-up cinemas,... Read More about Carnival: Performed transgressions.

The power of the image (2012)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2012). The power of the image. Architectural Design, 82(1), 98-101. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.1357

Designers have long used fantastical imagery as part of an urban regeneration process, here Louis Rice examines the legacy of the seminal image from the winning London Olympics bid.

Architecture + Transgression (2012)
Book
Rice, L. (2012). L. Rice, D. Littlefield, R. Sara, & J. Burch (Eds.), Architecture + Transgression. Bristol: The Architecture Centre

Bristol riots (2011)
Book
Rice, L., Davies, J., & Cains, M. (2011). Bristol riots. Bristol: Tangent Press

BRISTOL RIOTS is an examination of the demonstrations in Stokes Croft and the riot in the Spring of 2011 which took place after police raided a squatted building opposite the Tesco store. Where the national media failed to report the event that night... Read More about Bristol riots.

Informal/peripheral production (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2011, October). Informal/peripheral production. Presented at Architectural Humanities Research Conference, Belfast, UK

This research project explores a four-year (and on-going) research project into the production of informal spaces. Informal spaces (or something akin to informal spaces) are known variously as: autonomous, transgressive, or loose spaces; or terrain v... Read More about Informal/peripheral production.

Black-boxing sustainability (2011)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2011). Black-boxing sustainability. Journal of Sustainable Development, 4(4), 32-37

The term ‘sustainable’ has rapidly become a ubiquitous prefix for many contemporary issues, professions and disciplines. This paper contextualizes the debate by exploring how the term ‘sustainable’ has emerged within the field of architecture. The pa... Read More about Black-boxing sustainability.

Crit(ical) encounters (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L., & Sara, R. (2011, August). Crit(ical) encounters. Presented at Architectural Education Encounters Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The crit forms the primary narrative through which architectural education is operationalized. The crit or ‘design review’ inhabits a liminal space through which the process of learning architecture and development of professionalism are curated. For... Read More about Crit(ical) encounters.

Reshaping suburbs (2011)
Report
Barton, H., Grant, M., Rice, L., & Horswell, M. (2011). Reshaping suburbs

A report produced as part of the EPSRC solutions project - the sustainability of land use and transport in outer neighberhoods.

Slum genealogy (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2010, December). Slum genealogy. Presented at Destination Slum! International Conference, Bristol, UK

The slum is consuming the world. Thus slums by virtue of their presence: as a utopian model – always present, everywhere and always the same: have power. They have become more powerful than the formal city, princes and philosophers alike are drawn to... Read More about Slum genealogy.

Retrofitting suburbia: Is the compact city feasible? (2010)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2010). Retrofitting suburbia: Is the compact city feasible?. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 163(4), 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.2010.163.4.193

This paper examines the role of retrofitting existing suburbs to deliver more sustainable lifestyles. The policy of intensification of existing urban and suburban areas, referred to as a 'compact city' strategy, has been promoted by the UK government... Read More about Retrofitting suburbia: Is the compact city feasible?.

Towards a suburban renaissance (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2010, January). Towards a suburban renaissance. Paper presented at Urban Planning and Environment International Conference, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Playful learning (2009)
Journal Article
Rice, L. (2009). Playful learning. Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 4(2), 94-108

This paper explores the use of playful learning as an approach to teaching and learning. The research used the playful aspects of the 'dérive' (an approach to understanding an environment developed by the Situationists group) as a vehicle to examine... Read More about Playful learning.

Urban design (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2008, July). Urban design. Paper presented at The Oxford Conference: Resetting the Agenda for Architecture Education., Oxford, UK

Informal urbanism
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. Informal urbanism. Paper presented at Arts and Humanities Association International Conference - Edinburgh, Scotland

Healthy city: Masterplan codesign
Digital Artefact
Rice, L., Allen, C., Beaument, B., Cox, M., Finnerty, D., Morthan, S., …Wye, A. (2019). Healthy city: Masterplan codesign

The research focuses on a codesign project in an urban area in Bristol (UK) that is facing rapid regeneration and redevelopent. The study area contains some of the most socially, economically and environmentally deprived neighbourhoods in the UK. The... Read More about Healthy city: Masterplan codesign.

Adaptable DIY urban spaces and social capital: Investigating the reciprocity of spatial and social affordances
Presentation / Conference
Joachym, K., Williams, K., Rice, L., & Sara, R. Adaptable DIY urban spaces and social capital: Investigating the reciprocity of spatial and social affordances. Presented at CA2RE Conference for Artistic and Architectural (Doctoral) Research

In recent decades, adaptable do-it-yourself (DIY) urban spaces have proliferated in many cities across the world. Such spaces have become solutions to local problematic, misused or underutilised spaces. Citizens have taken power into their own hands,... Read More about Adaptable DIY urban spaces and social capital: Investigating the reciprocity of spatial and social affordances.

Mental, social & physical aspects of a healthy city
Digital Artefact
Rice, L., Antonopoulou, G., Chu, K., Green, R., Hilliard, D., Ma, K., …Watson, J. (2018). Mental, social & physical aspects of a healthy city

Can we design healthy cities or healthy architecture? There are claims that architects and urban designers can make people healthier and happier, but the evidence for this is contested. Meanwhile the general population is getting unhealthier and a p... Read More about Mental, social & physical aspects of a healthy city.