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,

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

Last week, I was privileged to be on the closing panel of the Improving wellbeing through urban nature (IWUN) ‘research  into practice’ event, convened by Sheffield’s renowned Landscape Architecture Department.  We are not short of evidence that access to nature is good for our health, but IWUN offers a much needed set of principles for