Outputs (30)

Creating healthy and sustainable cities (2025)
Digital Artefact

This short article summarises the major themes that will be addressed at the European Urban Research Association (EURA) Conference to be held in Bristol in June 2025. Contributors will share perspectives on how to create healthy and sustainable citi... Read More about Creating healthy and sustainable cities.

An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Greenspaces are recognised as important features of an urban environment which are visited by residents for different purposes. This paper investigates the relationship between residents in the West of England and their surrounding greenspaces, by st... Read More about An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England.

Solar street art for a participatory energy transition (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Evaluation briefing. Pedestrian pound update (3rd Edition) (2024)
Report

This briefing on the evaluation of public realm interventions is part of the research for The Pedestrian Pound (third edition). The evidence for greater investment in walkable high streets can be found in the main report. Public realm investment sits... Read More about Evaluation briefing. Pedestrian pound update (3rd Edition).

The pedestrian pound (3rd edition) (2024)
Report

Making our outdoor public spaces more accessible, attractive, comfortable and safe for people walking or wheeling can help to increase pedestrian footfall and revitalise high streets, district, town and city centres. This report updates the evidence... Read More about The pedestrian pound (3rd edition).

Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment (2024)
Thesis

Background

Good health is a human right and the built environment is recognised as a wider determinant of health but many studies focus only on physical health not mental or social health. The street is a microscale of the built environment yet r... Read More about Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment.

Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

COVID-19 brought unprecedented restrictive lockdown measures across the globe. This ‘enforced togetherness’ brought transformative changes in how homes were used and inhabited. The home was tested to its limits and the use of its spaces renegotiated,... Read More about Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment.

High street evidence - UWE - Written evidence (HSC0046) (2024)
Report

A participatory urban governance framework for transitioning cities towards sustainability: linking the protection of urban ecosystems’ functions and circularity principles (2024)
Journal Article

The purpose of this research is to provide an urban governance framework that can aid decision-makers to transition cities towards more sustainability and resilience. Our premise is that such transition will take time, iterations and adaptations and... Read More about A participatory urban governance framework for transitioning cities towards sustainability: linking the protection of urban ecosystems’ functions and circularity principles.

Decision-making on walkability improvements in the context of broader power dynamics: Review of evidence and analysis of case studies in New Zealand and the UK; Summary report (2024)
Report

This report is one of the outputs of the project “Accessible walking for all, from words to action: engaging diverse voices to better understand decision-making determinants”, realised with the support of the Vice-Chancelor’s Early Career Research Gr... Read More about Decision-making on walkability improvements in the context of broader power dynamics: Review of evidence and analysis of case studies in New Zealand and the UK; Summary report.

The potential of citizen science for socio-spatial studies. Defining and operationalising research pathways (2023)
Book Chapter

The term Citizen Science has been used in various contexts, but little effort has been made to provide a vision of it in regard to socio-spatial studies, which are at the core of the research group on Citizen Science in understanding and transforming... Read More about The potential of citizen science for socio-spatial studies. Defining and operationalising research pathways.

Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments (2023)
Journal Article

Flood risk in an urban built environment depends on the combination of the hazard, the vulnerability of the built environment itself and its infrastructure (referred to as physical vulnerability), and the exposure and vulnerability... Read More about Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments.

Pieces of Us (2023)
Book

Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to... Read More about Pieces of Us.

The spatial configuration of local climate zones reveals effects on wayfinding in human walking (2023)
Journal Article

The importance of easy wayfinding in complex urban settings has been recognized in spatial planning. Empirical measurement and explicit representation of wayfinding, however, have been limited in deciding spatial configurations. Our study proposed an... Read More about The spatial configuration of local climate zones reveals effects on wayfinding in human walking.

Identifying the impacts of land-use spatial patterns on street-network accessibility using geospatial methods (2023)
Journal Article

While the land use-street network nexus is well acknowledged, evidence for the one-way impacts of land-use patterns on street accessibility is still inadequate. The measurements of land-use patterns and street accessibility lack systematic knowledge.... Read More about Identifying the impacts of land-use spatial patterns on street-network accessibility using geospatial methods.

Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article

Few studies have focused on value structures, experiences, and cultural diversity as it relates to bioswale planning and implementation. We used ‘Point of Opportunity Interactions’ to understand previously undocumented views of the Cantonese-speaking... Read More about Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure.

Measures of greenspace exposure and their association to health-related outcomes for the periods before and during 2020’s Lockdown: A cross-sectional study in the West of England (2023)
Journal Article

Greenspaces are argued to be one of the important features in the urban environment that impact the health of the population. Previous research suggested either positive, negative or no associations between greenspaces and health-related outcomes. Th... Read More about Measures of greenspace exposure and their association to health-related outcomes for the periods before and during 2020’s Lockdown: A cross-sectional study in the West of England.

Drift and diffusion functions of historical time series and UKCP18 convection-permitting model outputs for Bristol and Filton (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As global temperatures continue to rise and affect atmospheric dynamics, there is a growing need to develop methods for investigating the temporal evolution of climate fields. These methods are useful to quantify both short- and long-term changes, as... Read More about Drift and diffusion functions of historical time series and UKCP18 convection-permitting model outputs for Bristol and Filton.

Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report

The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.

Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction: There is increasing acceptance of the desirability of involving communities in stewardship activities around urban blue-green infrastructure (BGI) to generate acceptance, reduce vandalism and decrease the maintenance burden on authoriti... Read More about Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities.