UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities

Lead:

• Dr Shaun Scholes (Health and Social Surveys Group, UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health)

Main collaborator:

• Professor Laura Vaughan (Bartlett School of Graduate Studies)

Additional collaborators:

• Dr Jennifer Mindell (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health)
• Dr Angela Donkin (UCL Institute of Health Equity)

Lead:

• Dr. Catalina Spataru  (UCL Energy Institute)

Main collaborator:

• Dr. Hervé Borrion  (Department of Security and Crime Science)

Additional collaborators:

• Dr. Ivan Wall (Department of Biochemical Engineering)
• Prof. Perry Elliott, (Young Institute of Cardiovascular Science)
• Dr. Pier Lambiase (Cardiology Department Heart Hospital)

Lead:

• Dr Emily Morris   (Institute of the Americas)

Main collaborator:

• Dr Julio Davila   (Development Planning Unit)

Additional collaborators:

• Prof. Nick Tyler (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
• Dr Juan Llanes Guerra (Centro de Estudios del Medio Ambiente (CEMA), University of Havana)
• Antonio Villasol (Ministerio del Transporte)

Lead:

• Dr Stephen Marshall (Bartlett School of Planning)

Main collaborator:

• Prof Nick Tyler (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)

Additional collaborators:

• Dr Catherine Holloway (Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
• Prof Michael Batty (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis)
• Dr James Cheshire (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis)

The ‘City for Human Locomotion’ is the vision of an urban environment designed to expedite travel on foot, by bicycle, wheelchair and other human-powered modes (rollerblades, skateboards, scooters, etc.).

Currently there is a vicious circle whereby the lack of knowledge about the full potential for human-powered modes leads to a lack of provision; this discourages use of these modes; and their invisibility hinders the political will to cater for their use. This situation could be turned around, if we could assemble and integrate more knowledge on all these fronts.

The primary aim is to assemble baseline knowledge about the different human-powered modes, especially those about which less is known (e.g. wheelchair use, rollerblades, skateboards, etc.), their potential conflicts and synergies, and their potential roles in a sustainable ‘city for human locomotion’; hence to gauge the potential for where future research would best be directed.

Lead:

• Prof. Susan Michie (Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology)

Main collaborator:

• Richard Jackson (UCL Estates)

Additional collaborators:

• Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
• UCL Human Resources
• UCL Union