Louis Rice's Outputs (34)

The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities (2018)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Healthy cities: Integrating healthy lifestyles and sustainable environments (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Informal/peripheral production (2011)
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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.

Crit(ical) encounters (2011)
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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.

Slum genealogy (2010)
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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.

Towards a suburban renaissance (2010)
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Urban design (2008)
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Adaptable DIY urban spaces and social capital: Investigating the reciprocity of spatial and social affordances
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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.

Transgression: Architecture without Architects
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Informal urbanism
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