AoU Journal Here & Now

Journal / Designing healthy behaviours

Preventable diseases and health inequality are unwittingly being designed into our neighbourhoods according to Rachel Toms, programme lead for Active

Walking is good for us, so cities need to be more walkable. George Weeks explains why walking is at the

The Netherlands has long been hailed as the prime example for safe and easy cycling. Henk Bouwman, urbanist and AoU

We make the assumption at The Academy of Urbanism that cities are good for us. This was the conclusion of

Charles Montgomery, ‘urban experimentalist’ and author of the book Happy City, was keynote speaker at this year’s Academy Congress. Simon

Creating shared places is the theme of the 2015/16 Glass-House series. Lucia das Neves explores how the debate is taking

The Arup report Cities Alive: Rethinking green infrastructure published in April 2015 charts the way forward for the role of