Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health; 2018: 4
ISSN 2398-4082 (online)
February 2018
ISSN 2398-4082 (online)
February 2018
Edition 4: Alone Together
EditorialsAlone together - Foxconn and the different faces of place-based isolation
Layla McCay Managing Editor, Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health Towards quantifying the role of urban place factors in the production and socio-spatial distribution of mental health in city dwellers
Chinmoy Sarkar Healthy High Density Cities Lab, HKUrbanLab, The University of Hong Kong Taking into account young people’s mental wellbeing and rights with large-scale urban development
Emilios Lemoniatis (1) and Andre Schott (2) (1) The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (2) Fitzrovia Youth in Action Sliding towards mental health momentum at the World Economic Forum
Chris Underhill Co-Founder, citiesRISE, UK |
Research & Analysis
Air pollution, mental health, and implications for urban design: a review
Jacob King (1,2)
(1) University of Exeter Medical School, UK
(2) Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health
Jacob King (1,2)
(1) University of Exeter Medical School, UK
(2) Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health
Undoing solitary urban design: a review of risk factors and mental health outcomes associated with living in social isolation
Kevin Bennett, Tyler Gualtieri and Becky Kazmierczyk
Penn State University, Beaver Campus, USA
Kevin Bennett, Tyler Gualtieri and Becky Kazmierczyk
Penn State University, Beaver Campus, USA
A city of happy captives: a study of perceived livability in contemporary urban Gurgaon, India
Avtar Bhalla and Sayna Anand
Sushant School of Art and Architecture, India
Avtar Bhalla and Sayna Anand
Sushant School of Art and Architecture, India
Focus on Hong Kong
Urban design and mental health in Hong Kong: a city case study
Layla McCay (1, 2) and Larissa Lai (1, 3)
(1) Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, UK
(2) Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong University
(3) Pratt Institute
Layla McCay (1, 2) and Larissa Lai (1, 3)
(1) Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, UK
(2) Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong University
(3) Pratt Institute
Graham Marshall
The Prosocial Place Programme: Institute of Psychology Health and Society
The Prosocial Place Programme: Institute of Psychology Health and Society
Density
This short dystopian film by HK Urban Lab at Hong Kong University brings focus to the potential future impacts that increasing urban density may exert on the population's mental health.
This short dystopian film by HK Urban Lab at Hong Kong University brings focus to the potential future impacts that increasing urban density may exert on the population's mental health.
Personal View
My journey from psychology to urban design
Rhiannon Corcoran
Co-Director (research,) Prosocial Place.Programme
Rhiannon Corcoran
Co-Director (research,) Prosocial Place.Programme
Submit to Edition 5
The next edition will be published in August 2018. Submission deadline is May 30 2018.
- If you are interested in submitting, please see opportunities for submitting editorials, original research, case studies, analysis and more. We encourage submissions from all countries and from all academic backgrounds. Feel free to email first to discuss.
- Edition 5 will contain city case studies from around the world. If you are interested in conducting a city case study, please review the list of available cities, and see our city case study protocol
- If you are interested in being a guest editor, peer reviewer or cover designer, please email us.
About Edition 4
Publisher
The Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health is a biannual open-access, peer-reviewed and multi-disciplinary 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?
Managing editor
Dr Layla McCay, Director, Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health
Cover curator
Erin Sharp Newton
The Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health is a biannual open-access, peer-reviewed and multi-disciplinary 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?
Managing editor
Dr Layla McCay, Director, Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health
Cover curator
Erin Sharp Newton