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he says i developed this piece from a photograph i took in moorgate where the dynamism of the city can be felt in full force bricks glass and concrete tumble over each other in all directions and bustling commuters and zigzagging traffic charge the space ever moving and continually altering the patterns of shape and colour i love the layers of london architecture and the contrasts of the natural and the man made i also enjoy observing the characters that move through the city everyday around me gail s work is currently featured in the 2017 lynn painter stainers prize exhibition on display at guildford house gallery until 22 april and she is working towards her fine art diploma graduation show which will take place at the art academy borough in july 2017 for further information please visit www gailsereswoolfson com and to join gail on her artistic journey you can follow her on instagram gailsereswoolfson uncategorized street mobility conference march 2017 march 16 2017 uclstreetmobility leave a comment post by dr jemima stockton three of london s busiest rail termini are on euston road part of the a501 and between them they absorb and discharge over 100 million pedestrians each year hot on the heels of the enormous footfall generated across and along euston road through the use of these stations is motorised traffic on the stretch of euston road by the wellcome collection building the estimated annual average daily flow is around 82 000 motor vehicles well above the average traffic volume for a british motorway and the nitrogen dioxide concentration is around three times the european union s legal limit needless to say crossing euston road as a pedestrian to reach the wellcome collection is a lengthy and probably health damaging affair it was fitting then and possibly cruel that on 8 th march delegates of the world s first as far as i am aware conference on community severance the barrier effect of busy roads on people s health and mobility had to do just that held in the wellcome collection building ucl s street mobility and network accessibility project conference marked the end of a three year multi faculty collaboration and the launch of the project s main output a toolkit to assess community severance it drew a diverse sell out audience of around one hundred and fifty comprising people from all over the uk and one from sweden from a range of backgrounds including health transport geography engineering politics and economics about a third of participants were researchers from universities there were also representatives from local regional and national government industry charities and community groups overcoming the barrier effect of traffic on euston road was a pre requisite for attendence at the world s first conference on community severance photo credit wikimedia commons the conference began with a networking lunch which true to the health theme was eighty percent vegetarian after an hour of dining and discussion including perhaps reflections on recent experiences of community severance in reaching the venue participants sat down in the henry wellcome auditorium for the first session chaired by henry kelly of the transport appraisal and strategic modelling division at the department of transport first we heard from the project s principal investigator dr jenny mindell who gave an explanation of community severance and why it is important this was followed by an excellent joint presentation by dr lou foley and dr amy nimegeer on their research into the effects of the construction of the m74 motorway in scotland on communities living nearby next one of the project s co investigators prof peter jones introduced the toolkit and two of the researchers dr ashley dhanani and dr paulo anciaes talked in some detail about the tools they had developed a walkability model and a valuation and appraisal tool jenny gave the concluding talk of the first session describing how on the whole the tools produced consistent findings and could be used together in a neighbourhood or area to develop a fuller picture of community severance she also directed people to the team s paper on this the first session ended with questions for the speakers from the audience and a lively discussion after some light refreshments including fruit and delicious biscuits produced by the wellcome collection s friendly and helpful staff the second session began chaired by prof eugene milne director of public health at newcastle city council carl petrokofsky a public health specialist from public health england was the first speaker he described the various health impacts of the built environment with a focus on road transport he highlighted how pedestrian friendly environments had the potential to increase physical activity reducing the risk of diseases such as diabetes and colon cancer project co investigator prof muki haklay gave the next talk on the use of participatory mapping one of the tools in the toolkit to learn about the impacts of community severance among older people dr john miles a community worker from kilburn older voices exchange followed showing three poignant short films crossings george crossings nancy and mrs ekanem made by his organisation to illustrate the challenges faced by older people in getting about on foot around kilburn high road dr jemima stockton one of the project s researchers presented findings from the health and neighbourhood mobility survey the final two presentations were from representatives of the greater london authority deputy mayor for transport valerie shawcross talked about the gla s commitment to prioritising walking cycling and public transport to create more healthy and sustainable streets finally lucy saunders a public health specialist and author of the multi award winning tfl health action plan gave examples of how transport for london is taking the healthy streets approach wherein london s transport network is designed and improved to promote walking and cycling the conference drew to a close after questions from the audience overall there was much interest in the toolkit particularly among community groups keen to use some of the tools to assess the effects of busy roads in their neighbourhoods the presentations given at the conference are available on the street mobility project website uncategorized learning about transport and health in brazil january 9 2017 uclstreetmobility leave a comment post by dr jemima stockton in may i was one of about 15 uk based researchers selected to attend a workshop in brazil on the topic of transport housing and urban health funded by the british council newton fund researcher link programme the workshop was held in belo horizonte bh about 220 miles 360 kilometres north east of san paulo and about 200 miles north of rio de janiero flights to bh from the uk are not direct so some of us took the opportunity to have a stop over in rio although this little diversion was mainly for fun i m interested in transport and health anyway so i took some transport photos which i thought i d share on this blog on the bus journey from the airport in rio to our hotel i noticed a lot of tarmac but the roads didn t seem especially busy around the airport there were lots of slums or informal settlements just a few metres from the busy motorway these settlements were clearly visible to us when we arrived in early may but by july they were hidden by 10 foot high barriers pasted with posters advertising the olympics the barriers cost about 45 000 to put up apparently as we entered the city we saw numerous wide pedestrian crossings our hotel was in copacabana just a short stroll across a dual carriageway to the beach copacabana was very nice again we saw a lot of tarmac but it was good that a fair proportion was designated for cyclists and pedestrians the town was not packed with foreign tourists possibly because of the zika outbreak i saw only two mosquitoes during my stay in brazil and neither bit me fortunately on the bus on the way back from our trip to see christ the redeemer we spotted a priority seating sign for the usual suspects plus the obese from rio we had a short plane journey to bh which is in the state of minas gerais and is brazil s sixth largest city it s about half the size of london but it has a similar population density our workshop was held in a couple of lecture and seminar rooms in the medical school of the federal university of minas gerais we stayed in a hotel about a 15 minute walk from where the workshop was held our daily commute involved trekking across a swimming pool or so s length of zebra crossings first over the 8 lane road outside our hotel and then over the motorway running outside the hospital it probably wasn t a motorway actually given the presence of traffic lights and zebra crossings but it certainly felt like one especially as stepping on to a designated crossing point with no traffic lights did not seem to be taken by motorists as a sign that you were intent on crossing as it would in the uk i did try using these crossings a few times but gave up when i realised i was provoking a hostile response drivers accelerated towards me beeping their horns and forcing me back onto the pavement or into the gutter for me the highlight of the workshop was visiting an informal settlement we took a minibus from the medical school to an area in the northern outskirts of the city and were greeted by a local project officer from programa vila viva he gave a presentation translated from portuguese to english by cesar one of the workshop organisers who is brazilian but works at ucl on work done to improve living conditions for residents these improvements included the building of better roads and structurally sound apartments and more frequent bus services enabling people to get to work in the city we were worried about the effect of the main road through the settlement in creating community severance we were then driven further into the slum and went on a short walk the roads were incredibly steep informal settlements are often built on steep land because planning restrictions prevent formal housing being built there after our short walk we visited a housing development where a few hundred residents had been rehomed into safer housing we were accompanied by some field project staff who had arranged with the residents to show us their homes it felt a bit awkward and intrusive but the residents seemed quite happy there wasn t always someone on hand to translate so i m not entirely sure what the residents thought about their new homes i think they may have received some financial compensation for allowing us to visit another fun activity was a coach trip to the pampulha region north east of bh we visited the church of saint francis of assisi which was designed by the brazilian architect oscar niemeyer and completed in 1943 the architect intended it to represent god s hangar on earth but the archbishop of bh at the time saw it more as the devil s bomb shelter it s now a unesco world heritage site the trip to brazil gave me an insight into the challenges and exciting opportunities for development of healthy sustainable transport in a rapidly urbanising country and a travel carbon footprint to rival that of major tim peak well not quite birmingham case studies uncategorized exploring case study four stratford road birmingham april 29 2016 uclstreetmobility leave a comment post by dr jemima stockton in a geographical departure from the previous case studies of the street mobility project the fourth is in warwickshire the west midlands see map 1 the chosen area shown in the map 2 is around 3km south east of birmingham city centre and covers approximately 1 5 square kilometres it has a high concentration of homes a good mix of destinations greenspace schools healthcare facilities businesses shops and other services and the streets are well connected these attributes make it very walkable in theory however it is also bisected by a 1 5km stretch of a busy road stratford road also known as the a41 see photo 1 which carries an average of almost 30 000 vehicles per day this potentially detracts from the ease with which people can get around on foot or by other non motorised means therefore we have identified the area as one in which we d expect to find community severance the separation of people from goods services and by transport infrastructure and motorised traffic and one which makes an ideal case to study for the project map 1 locations of the four case studies 1 woodberry down london borough of hackney 2 finchley road london borough of camden 3 queensway southend on sea and 4 stratford road near birmingham west midlands map 2 stratford road study area and route walked by team by selecting our fourth case study in a different region of the uk we can investigate community severance in a new context housing in our birmingham case study area comprises predominately nineteenth century two storey terraces on long residential streets which branch off main feeder roads for the city see photo 1 in contrast we have found housing in our other case study areas is more mixed modern apartments and social housing in addition to older terraced homes located on both minor and major roads given the differences in the types of housing and residential layouts we may find a different pattern in social contact between neighbours in case study four and in the ways this is affected by traffic photo 1 stratford road as shown in map 2 case study four encompasses three suburban regions sparkhill to the east sparkbrook to the north and mosely to the west the area is delineated to the west by a railway line and to the east by the river cole the most northerly point of stratford road included in the area is the junction with the a41 warwick road and the most southerly is where it crosses the river cole stratford road and stoney lane yardley wood road to the west are both bus routes into the city with several bus stops however there are no rail stations within our case study area the nearest is small health around 800m to the north all the members of the street mobility team work and live in or near london and none of us know birmingham well but it s useful for researchers to have first hand experience of the places they study so on a mercifully dry and non dreary friday in april several members of the team hopped on the train to visit the area from small heath the aforementioned station we had a short trek to our case study area passing a ski slope not real although the west midlands is hilly and chilly it is only moderately so on the site of the former birmingham small arms company and wandered around soaking up the atmosphere and thinking about how it felt to be a pedestrian as shown on the map our first hand experience as pedestrians was largely confined to the busy stratford road during our three hour field trip 11am to 2pm we spotted a lot of cars quite a few lorries 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