The metropolis and mental health: Are big cities making us sick?

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It is often said that we are living through another period of mass urbanisation – an age in which more and more people, in all regions of the world, are moving from rural towns and villages and trying to make their lives in cities

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Urban Living Partnership Pilot Phase

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The Urban Living Partnership is seeking applications from consortia which bring together leading cross-disciplinary research expertise, city leaders, businesses, civic organisations and community groups, public, third sector and other urban innovators. Each of the consortia will…

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Cities, cyborgs and social science: how will we live in the year 2065?

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Britain’s cities of 2065 need to be built, not on our imagined version of the future, but on a deep understanding of the present and the past.

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ESRC investment programme launched

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The ESRC is investing more than £15 million in research to understand the best ways to help cities to thrive both economically and socially over the next five decades.

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The way we live now?

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Professor Michael Keith, Urban Transformations Portfolio Co-ordinator, discusses the city today. He asks how should we make sense of our contemporary city and the city that is yet to come.

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