Outputs (36)
The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review (2011)
Journal Article
Background: Spatial planning affects the built environment, which in turn has the potential to have a significant impact on health, for good or ill. One way of ensuring that spatial plans take due account of health is through the inclusion of health... Read More about The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review.
Bristol riots (2011)
Book
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 Contribution
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.
PLAN-ED model: The view from Europe, the case of health integrated planning in a comparative perspective (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Creating built environments that promote walking and health: Assessing the current state of knowledge (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The principle that the built environment should be supportive of walking is generally accepted and a wide range of interventions have been carried out in recent years with the aim of increasing walking. This paper presents the findings from a study c... Read More about Creating built environments that promote walking and health: Assessing the current state of knowledge.
Effects of learning styles on engaging children in school projects (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The importance of children’s engagement in school projects has been widely acknowledged. Despite various initiatives and efforts promote it, the effectiveness of children’s engagement has remained limited. Available evidence suggests that most prev... Read More about Effects of learning styles on engaging children in school projects.
Black-boxing sustainability (2011)
Journal Article
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.
Supported employment for persons with mental illness: Systematic review of the effectiveness of individual placement and support in the UK (2011)
Journal Article
Background. High levels of unemployment among persons with mental illness are a significant social disability. The individual placement and support (IPS) model of vocational support has been shown to be effective in establishing persons with mental h... Read More about Supported employment for persons with mental illness: Systematic review of the effectiveness of individual placement and support in the UK.
Determination of urban sustainability compliance with national indicators (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Improvements in methodologies for measuring and capturing data for the UK’s sustainability indicators (social, economic and environmental) means there is now a wealth of accurate and reliable approaches to assess sustainability levels. However the ma... Read More about Determination of urban sustainability compliance with national indicators.
Health, ageing and the built environment: Influencing local policy and service delivery (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
An overview of how research findings can be used to improve local policy/service delivery whoever might be providing the service. Possible mechanisms for influence draw on experiences in working with Bristol and the South West - for example through s... Read More about Health, ageing and the built environment: Influencing local policy and service delivery.
Health integrated planning: Impediments and opportunities (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This article examines the degree to which health is incorporated in planning systems through plan preparation and appraisal. It identifies the key barriers to health-integration, examples of good practice, and opportunities for improvement. It is bas... Read More about Health integrated planning: Impediments and opportunities.
Suburban solutions: The other side of the story (2011)
Journal Article
How much does urban form affect levels of active travel and transport carbon emissions? It is all too easy for policy-makers to jump to simple conclusions, but the answer is both complex and contested. Here Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Michael Horsw... Read More about Suburban solutions: The other side of the story.
The effect of social interactions on travel behaviour: An exploratory study using a laboratory experiment (2011)
Journal Article
This study demonstrates the use of a laboratory experiment for investigating the effects of social interaction on the dynamics of travellers' choice behaviour. A small-scale exploratory experiment is carried out. Analyses are conducted using statisti... Read More about The effect of social interactions on travel behaviour: An exploratory study using a laboratory experiment.
Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data (2011)
Journal Article
Panel data offers the potential to represent the influence on travel choices of changing circumstances, past history and persistent individual differences (unobserved heterogeneity). A four-wave panel survey collected data on the travel choices of re... Read More about Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data.
Bringing public health into built environment education (2011)
Journal Article
This guide is aimed at all built environment educators, showing what the key issues are in terms of improving health
understanding in the built environment professions. It will explain the relevance, show how the built environment impacts on health... Read More about Bringing public health into built environment education.
Review of evidence: Current English planning experience in incorporating health (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution