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ering and planning urban studies and urban design the main event in each city was a half day public seminar attended by practitioners policy makers researchers and graduate students in these seminars we presented the methods and results of the street mobility project prof jenny mindell gave an overview of community severance as a transport and health issue and dr paulo anciaes presented the main output of our project the street mobility toolkit local researchers also presented some of their work on transport and health all the presentations can be downloaded from our website here flyer of the santiago seminar media interest after the temuco seminar in each city after the public seminar we held workshops with a smaller group of local researchers where they talked at length about the main transport and public health issues in their cities we then identified common interests and explored possible ideas for future research and possibilities for funding this research working lunch in universidad de los andes bogotá final group photo at universidad de la frontera temuco we also made walking and cycling visits to see and use transport infrastructure that promotes active travel health and wellbeing in bogotá we cycled in the ciclovía an initiative where 120 km of main roads are closed off to motorised traffic on sunday mornings we participated in a similar initiative in santiago the ciclorecreovia in santiago we also joined local city officials on a walking tour of areas in the city centre where policies are being implemented to tame motorised traffic and improve the conditions for pedestrians in temuco we cycled along the city s extensive cycle lane network in são paulo we joined local researchers and practitioners in a visit of são miguel paulista an area where there are plans for a complete redesign of the street network to promote walking we then met with the local mayor joining the ciclorecreovia in santiago meeting the mayor of são miguel paulista são paulo at the invitation of the dean of the faculty of health science of universidad san sebastian prof jenny mindell also delivered a public lecture at that university talking about health examination surveys in england and the americas plus a short overview of community severance we also held meetings with representatives of the british consulate and the british council in bogotá to discuss possible opportunities for funding future projects last but not least we met with ucl alumni in bogotá são paulo and santiago in lively social events and we exchanged ideas with these members of the ucl community in the coming days we will publish three further posts describing the main themes that came out from the activities in the three countries the starting point of the activities was the issue of community severance but in all cities visited our discussions with local researchers and other stakeholders evolved to cover related topics on transport and health such as physical activity exposure to noise and air pollution trip quality trip related stress fear of crime public transport provision urban sprawl design of public places and above all social equity we hope that this trip becomes the starting point of a common understanding of the key objectives of future research on urban transport and health in south america and of the possible means to secure funding to implement that research chalkboard full of ideas after the são paulo workshop general exploring the urban landscape april 5 2017 uclstreetmobility leave a comment gail seres woolfson is a london artist whose current work explores the urban landscape using an interplay of observation and re imagining figuration and abstraction her practice explores the architecture and spaces around us communicating the experience of moving through around and into the city and also the juxtapositions and tensions that exist within it concrete and shadows permanence and flux london grey disrupted by fluorescent debris and neon cyclists jackets her drawing surveillance was made directly from observation from inside the glass fronted crisis charity shop on stroud green road n4 she comments there s a lovely big communal table in there great coffee and a fabulous view of the street to draw surveillance cameras traffic lights and signposts regularly appear in my work they re of course plentiful on london streets but for me they become a rhythmical pattern of verticals across my picture plane and provide opportunities to play with scale perspective flatness and the illusion of depth of her painting urban noise she 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...
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