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For over 10 years, there has been bitter argument in Italy about how to protect Venice from flooding, which has dangerously delayed important decision-making.

Jane da Mosto and Caroline Fletcher, Umberto Allemandi & Co, 15 December 2004

Roads Gone Wild
Monderman is one of the leaders of a new breed of traffic engineer - equal parts urban designer, social scientist, civil engineer, and psychologist. The approach is radically counterintuitive: Build roads that seem dangerous, and they'll be safer.
Tom McNichol, Wired, December 2004

Metro miserablists
James Woudhuysen, spiked, 1 October 2004

Getting us nowhere fast
Austin Williams, spiked, 27 July 2004

False Urban Memory Syndrome
Removed from any political context, the result of urban memory practices is often simply the celebration of attachment to place for its own sake.
Austin Williams, Future Cities Project, 13 May 2004

Safe as houses
Jennie Bristow, spiked, 25 March 2004

Young People, New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment Whilst grand claims abound on the use of new media amongst children and young people, Sonia Livingstone takes a sober look at the evidence

Sonia Livingstone, Sage, 2003

Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art

For Christopher Day architecture is not just about a building's appearance, but how the building is experienced. 'Places of the Soul' presents buildings as environment, intrinsic to their surroundings, and offers design principles that will open the eyes of the architecture student and professional alike, presenting ideas quite different to the orthodoxy of modern architectural education.

Christopher Day, Architectural Press, 1 December 2003

Democratic design
Patients, staff and the public should have a say in hospital design, according to the Department of Health. But how can this be done?
Alison Moore, Health Service Journal, 10 July 2003

The Neighborhood Context of Well-Being
Health-related problems are strongly associated with the social characteristics of communities and neighborhoods.We need to treat community contexts as important units of analysis in their own right, which in turn calls for new measurement strategies as well as theoretical frameworks that do not simply treat the neighborhood as a “trait” of the individual.
Robert J. Sampson, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol 46, No 3, 2003

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