📣 (very) draft thesis sent to supervisors! Slowly but surely my #HealthyStreetlife thesis is progressing. The research has taken 7 years (part time) with fieldwork including qualitative participant and street observations right through the thick of #Covid19 during 2020-2021. #PhDlife #urbandesign #urbanhealth #publichealth #sociallife

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they care created by everybody.” #JaneJacobs #HealthyStreetLife #PhDLife

Reading #JaneJacobs for the first time and I'm wondering if anyone I've heard citing her ideas has actually read her. Her writing is strongly against much of what passes for planning orthodoxy still today: garden cities & neighbourhoods so far. Obviously I like the bits about streets that fit with my research on #HealthyStreetLife! Interested to read on! #urbanism #HealthyStreets #phdlife

A generous space for those walkers! Yet take away the recent council approved vehicle crossover with associated steep gradient & flooding; combined with temporary waste storage once a week, and well there isn't much space left for walking. #HealthyStreetLife #Not