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Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health; 2016: 1
ISSN 2398-4082 (online)


EDITION 1: CONSCIOUS CITIES

Conscious Cities is the concept of urban environments that are responsive to our needs through data analysis and the application of behavioural science in architecture and planning.

Editorials

Defining Conscious Cities
Itai Palti, Guest Editor
Conscious Cities, Israel and UK

A new journal for urban design and mental health?
Layla McCay, Director
Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, UK and Tokyo

The future of applied neuroscience research in architecture education
Amelia Taylor-Hochberg
Archinect, US

Mental health suffers when we surrender to car culture
Paul Mackie
MobilityLab, US
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Research

Using smartphone applications to better understand the links between urban design and mental health
Georgina M Hosang
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Planning for wellbeing
Rhiannon Corcoran and Graham Marshall
The Prosocial Place Programme, University of Liverpool, UK

Digital technology and social media can help urban planners and designers to understand and heal traumascapes
Sophie Gleizes
European Commission and UD/MH Fellow, Belgium

Might beautiful places have a quantifiable impact on our wellbeing?
Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe
University of Warwick, UK


Case studies

Turning the city inside out for mental health
Jan Golembiewski
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Improving the lives of people with dementia through urban design
Barbara Pani
Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, UK

Video

This short video by Itai Palti explains his concept of Conscious Cities.

Information about the first edition of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health

Publisher
The Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health is published online by the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, an international think tank that seeks to answer the question: how can we build better mental health into our cities?

Guest Editor
The Guest Editor for this first edition is Itai Palti, a practicing architect, educator, researcher, and Fellow of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health.  A graduate of The Bartlett School of Architecture, Itai has previously worked alongside the late Jan Kaplicky at his practice Future Systems in London. His built and theoretical work has been published internationally, including ‘A Manifesto for Conscious Cities’ in The Guardian, part of research in collaboration with leading figures in the behavioural and brain sciences. He is a co-recipient of the 2015 Hay Award from the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture for ongoing research. Itai will be speaking at the first Conscious Cities conference, organised by The Museum of Architecture and The Cube, in London on 1st of March, 2016.

Design
Journal cover art by Avitalster Studio
Logo by Alan M Benzie

Next Edition
This first edition of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health is a pilot to assess interest and opportunity. Pending positive feedback and funding (please contact us if you can help), we hope this will proceed to a biannual publication.

Get involved
If you are interested in becoming an editor, peer reviewer or submitting a research paper, analysis paper or case study for a future edition, or if you have other feedback or ideas for the journal, please email us.
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