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Children playing in an outdoor water fountain

How Can We Make Our Cities More Child-Friendly?

Professor Helen Woolley discusses the principles of child-friendly city planning and her research on inequality in the provision of playgrounds in this new article for Forbes.

Published by Forbes
The cover of the book 'The Backpacker's Guide to University', with the subtitle 'An undergraduate's guide to travelling well and staying the course'

New book co-authored by Dr Joanne Phillips tackles the challenges students face entering higher education

‘The Backpacker’s Guide to University’ supports students with managing the change to undergraduate study after their A-levels or other life/work experiences.
A minuature model of a city with a large number of buildings and roads

New public exhibition marks 30 years of East-West Studies in Architecture and Landscape

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the internationally recognised research unit East-West Studies in Architecture and Landscape, co-founded in 1995 by the late Professor Peter Blundell Jones, based in the School of Architecture and Landscape.

Invest in parks and green spaces to boost wellbeing across the city, say researchers

More funding should be made available to improve, maintain and encourage people to connect with green spaces in cities, to allow residents to reap the health and wellbeing rewards they can provide, according to researchers.