Healthy City Design 2020 is taking place 30th November - 3 December.

Usually this takes place in London, but thanks to COVID-19, this year it is virtual so you can attend from anywhere in the world. UD/MH is pleased to be a supporting partner for this incredibly relevant event. Here's our highlights from the event programme; timings are in UK timezone:

30th Nov

• 12:15 - Session 7 - Urban communities: integrating work, home and health
• 1:30 - Session 3 - International city responses to COVID-19 
• 3pm - Session 8 - As part of Session 8, UD/MH Fellows Colin Ellard and Robin Mazumder talk about the psychological and physiological effects of distance from and repeated exposure to high-rise buildings - implications for stress restoration.

1st Dec

• 10:30 - Session 17 on Co-designing integrated and resilient communities includes a presentation titled 'Suburban + Urban – will COVID-19 force us to choose between physical health and mental health? Resiliency in urban forms'
• 5:15pm - Session 16 is Cities with nature: improving human & planetary health

2nd Dec

• 8am - Session 28 starts at 8am but the presentation that sounds particularly interesting is at 8:30, on the therapeutic city. 

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The latest edition of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health was published in October 2020, and the theme was COVID City. Don't miss the fascinating pieces exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban planning and design around the world - and how this in turn has affected people's mental health.

This Edition also includes seven new case studies from Adelaide (Australia), Ankara (Turkey), Delhi (India), George Town (Malaysia), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), and Washington, DC (USA). We continue to seek insights from all cities, and from South America and Africa in particular, so if you're interested, please get in touch.