Urban planning and design can impact mental health, but it is unclear how ever-growing
and changing cities can sustain the psychological wellbeing of vulnerable groups, who are …

The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring
new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of …

This article examines two different models of space management, devised by NGOs to
confront the marketization of public space in New York City through privatizing the land of …

In recent decades, the dominant planning discourse has undergone a great change from a
previous top-down approach towards collaborative and communicative planning. Instead of …

Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning (RSLUP), a process that has implications for Disaster
Risk Reduction (DRR) as well as Urban Planning and Development, requires the …

This study explores projects to regenerate old urban spaces and introduce smart city
systems. It focuses on citizen perspectives and ways to build a citizen-centered smart city. A …

'Consultation'has become something of a mantra in contemporary governance.
Governments well understand that policy occurs in a highly contestable environment in …

Background and aims: Concerns about physical inactivity in children and growing levels of
obesity are expressed by politicians, health economists and those involved with the health …

Although science is generally assumed to be well integrated into rational decision-making
models, it can be used to destabilise consultative processes, particularly when emotions are …

With roughly half of the global population living in cities, urban environments become central
to public health often perceived as health risk factors. Indeed, mental disorders show higher …