Earlier this year, Dezeen reported on research from MIT’s Senseable City Lab which suggests that pedestrians are walking 15 per cent faster and stopping to linger 14 per cent less than they used to. Computer models comparing William H Whyte’s Social Life of Small Open Spaces and similar footage by Keith N Hampton 30 years later also found that, in 1980,

Co-authored with Jane Faulkner, North London NHS Foundation Trust Calm, relaxed and peaceful. Curious, inspired and thoughtful. Reflective, thankful and sad. These were feelings highlighted on The Emotions Wheel by participants in a recent “walkshop” at Highgate Cemetery,  designed and delivered with Jane Faulkner, Lived Experience Workforce Lead at the North London NHS Foundation Trust.

Last year, colleagues from Highgate Cemetery joined the Healthy Parks and Green Space Network I jointly run with Gemma Moore and Liza Griffin from UCL’s Bartlett Faculty. The Cemetery team also generously hosted our first in-person meeting, in one of their chapels. We organised a “green walk” to this from Archway station to help participants