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Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health; 2017: 1
ISSN 2398-4082 (online)

EDITION 2: PLANNING AND DESIGNING FOR URBAN MENTAL HEALTH

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Editorials

Urban mental health: a defining moment for architects and planners
Layla McCay
Managing Editor, Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health, Tokyo and London
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A new agenda for urban psychology: out of the laboratory and onto the streets
Colin Ellard
Urban Realities Laboratory, University of Waterloo, and Fellow, Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, Canada

Productivity, the City and the Mind
Rahul Sinha
Inquiry, USA
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Lonelitopia: how urbanism of mass destruction is crushing the American dream
Tanzil Shafique
University of Arkansas, USA

Analysis

Architecture, the urban environment and severe psychosis: aetiology
Jan Golembiewski
Psychological Design and Schizophrenia Research Institute, Australia
​Spatial Designs to Enhance Early Development and Wellbeing in Urban Environments
Latoiah Williams and Quncie Williams
Grand Canyon University, USA and Alexander Gorlin Architects, USA

Research

Neighbourhood Amenities and Depressive Symptoms in Urban-Dwelling Older Adults
Shahirah Gillespie, Michael T. LeVasseur and Yvonne L. Michael
Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University and Center for Health Incentives and Behavioural Economics (CHIBE), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
The Effect of Physical Stimuli on Citizens' Happiness in Urban Environments:  The Case of the Pedestrian Area of the Historical Part of Tehran
Sahar Samavati and  Ehsan Ranjbar
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Submitting to Edition 3 of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health

The next edition aims to publish in summer 2017. Submission deadline is May 30 2017.
  • ​If you are interested in submitting, please see opportunities for submitting research, case studies, analysis and more
  • If you are interested in starting a little city-based research, please see our new city case study protocol
  • If you are interested in being a guest editor, peer reviewer or cover designer, please email us.

About Edition 2

Publisher
The Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal, 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?

Editorial staff
Managing editor:
Dr Layla McCay, Director, Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health
Copy editor: Charlotte Collins, Associate, Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health

Design
Logo: Alan M Benzie, Architect

Cover design: Tracy Brosnan, creative director and art director on Olay, L'Oreal, she has also worked with Walmart, J&J, Dove Chocolate and other global brands. She is currently working with two start up companies that plan to launch in 2017.

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