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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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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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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Research Priorities: A Modeller’s perspective

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Sir Alan Wilson considers the research priorities needed to build a comprehensive mathematical model of a city that is useful for planning and policy purposes.

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