New EURA Working Group – Flexible, Healthy and Liveable Public Spaces

Flexible, Healthy and Liveable Public Spaces

The EURA community is launching a new Working Group to advance research and practice on how public spaces can support health, liveability, inclusiveness and adaptability in cities.

Objectives

The working group aims to identify and analyze international best practices related to public spaces that promote health, livability, and inclusiveness, with the goal of generating transferable knowledge and recommendations for urban and spatial planning. In particular, the group will explore the multiple dimensions that contribute to the well-being of people in public spaces, recognizing that while the feeling of comfort may be intuitive, the underlying spatial, social, and environmental factors that produce it are complex and multifaceted.

Key Issues (for case study selection)

• Liveable public spaces
• Healthy public spaces
• Liveable campus and university public spaces
• Healthy streets
• Foodscapes for healthy food routines
• Flexible public spaces for multi-risk places
• Waterfronts
• Proximity public spaces
• Places for ageing and fragile people
• Parklets, pocket parks, pop-up parks

Participants

Coordinator: Marichela Sepe, DICEA – Sapienza Università di Roma (profile)

Members:
Dimitra Babalis (Università di Firenze) • Matthew Carmona (The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL) • Claudio De Magalhaes (The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL) • Aleksandra Marinkovic (University of Niš) • Danielle Sinnett (UWE Bristol) • Tim Townshend (Newcastle University)

Partner: GUDesign network (www.gudesign.org)

Get involved

If you are interested in contributing projects, case studies or joining the group’s activities, please contact the coordinator, Prof. Marichela Sepe via her email (marichela.sepe@uniroma1.it). We welcome expressions of interest from researchers, practitioners and city partners.