wellbeing
From ice on the allotment to the first tulip, it’s been a packed start to 2026, and given I can’t rely on telepathy to communicate what both myself and Urban Habitats have been working on… here’s a round‑up of the past few months.
Read more “Flash in the Pan Jan → Full‑Tilt Feb → Making Moves March!”
healthy places
A new report calls for urgent action to embed health and equity in the future development of Greater Cambridge.
Read more “Healthy Greater Cambridge: Healthy placemaking for equity, planet, and people”
ULI Health Leaders
This year our founder and director, Mark Drane, has been selected to participate in the ULI Health Leaders Network. Cohort 8 which he is part of is made up of 28 emerging and established leaders from diverse fields including real estate development, planning, design, engineering, finance, law, community engagement, and public health. The programme includes a series of activities through the year and in this blog Mark consolidates and shares some of his learning and thinking from the Introductory Forum which was in Miami, Florida.
Read more “Reflections on ULI Health Leaders Introductory Forum, Miami”
wellbeing
Urban Habitats has been appointed by The Cambridge Room to support creation of a vision for healthy placemaking in Greater Cambridge.
Read more “Healthy placemaking across Greater Cambridge”
health impact assessment
Today at Healthy City Design International Congress 2023 new evidence is presented on how to ensure human health is baked into climate adaptation plans. The work results from a year-long collaborative project between Urban Habitats and Public Health Wales. Health Impact Assessment for Climate Adaptation: Examples from Practice is now available to download (link below).
Read more “new resource | health in climate adaptation”
codesign
A collaborative research partnership project has launched to explore Making Space for Nature with the children of Ysgol Pen Rhos in Llanelli, Wales.
Read more “Making Space for Nature”
health impact assessment
This newly released assessment from Public Health Wales provides a novel look at circular economy approaches and their impact on health and well-being.
Read more “Healthy doughnuts!”
wellbeing
wellbeing
Cardiff, the capital of and largest city in Wales, has just launched its Transport Vision to 2030: Changing how we move around a growing city. Just to do what it says on the tin would be ambitious: in fact this vision has the capacity to lead this city much further improving quality of life and reducing inequalities in the city.
Read more “A transport vision that shows how we can be living better.”
wellbeing
The Future Generations Commissioner For Wales has launched a key part their flagship programme, Art of the Possible. Urban Habitats has been privileged to contribute thinking to this and here our director, Mark Drane, shares his reflections on the new Journey Checker resources and what this means for practitioners.
Read more “Journey to a Healthier Wales, Placemaking Matters”