Rethinking healthy cities – To what extent can urban health be designed?
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: HybridThe seminar will offer a basis for critical reflection and discussion across urban health, geography and planning.
Monday, 11 May 2026, 11.30am to 12.30pm
Debates on healthy cities have intensified in the context of urbanisation, socio-spatial inequality, and growing attention to the links between urban environments and health. While planning and designing frameworks seek to embed health in the built environment, questions remain about how far urban health can be intentionally produced through such approaches.
This seminar will draw on empirical research in urban geography spanning housing, urban form, mobility, liveability and urban nature to examine how urban health is shaped through relationships across scales between people, places, and the more-than-human. The seminar will highlight tensions and uneven outcomes that emerge across these domains. The seminar will offer a basis for critical reflection and discussion across urban health, geography, planning, and related fields.
Speaker(s): Dr Mirjam Schindler (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Visiting Research Associate at the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation)
Venue:
Kellogg College
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Kellogg College 62 Banbury Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6PN United Kingdom
Department: Kellogg College (College)
Organiser: GCHU
Host: Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rethinking-healthy-cities-tickets-1988484703276?aff=oddtdtcreator
More info:
This event is hybrid, booking is required for in-person attendance.
For those attending online, please us this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88595362332?pwd=uaDhyCEMkrxrteubas9regFf2YcD6w.1