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alastair38 Jenny Roe

Director, Center for Design + Health, University of Virginia »
  • The restorative power of urban waterfronts and tactical urbanism
    Undertaken by a team at the University of Virginia in conjunction with Happy City and Street Plans Collaborative, this study is one of the few covering the emerging field of “blue health.”
  • Neural signatures associated with experiencing different urban environments
    We previously wrote about studying emotive responses in older people through research conducted in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Special restorative design considerations for the elderly
    Attending to the health and wellbeing of our older people is not only an ethical concern, but a practical one as well.
  • Poverty, Ethnicity, and Mental Health in Children
    Health equity is one of those “wicked problems.” We want to solve it, but it’s bound up tightly with other problems: namely, poverty and ethnicity.
  • Walking in nature and the city – a study on emotive responses in the elderly
    Restorative environments don’t demand a lot of mental effort but do capture our sense of curiosity and interest in an effortless way.
  • Youth friendly and healthy cities?
    Did you know that 30% of 16-24 year-olds report that they never visit a local park?
  • Building on the Francis effect
    This autumn I become my own study in human adaptation, as I moved across the Atlantic to America to become the Professor in Design and Health at the Architecture School, University of Virginia.
  • Navigating the world with sight loss
    It has been suggested the human eye is the most important sensory organ in our body, with 80% of all the impressions on our senses coming from the eye.

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S.M. Labib
5 Mar
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A comprehensive review on greenspace, and #healthequity! Found, people in deprived communities/lower-SES people show more beneficial effects than affluent people, particularly when concerning public #greenspaces/ #parks rather than green land covers/greenness! twitter.com/AleRigolon/sta…

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ResilienceUVA
4 Mar
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Jenny Roe, Director of UVA's Center of Design and Health, and ERI researcher, will study pandemic’s impact on seniors. A local non-profit partner, JABA, will help study whether nature-based activities can improve seniors’ health. @thriv_i dailyprogress.com/news/uva-an…

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Jenny Roe
3 Mar
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Front cover illustration one of many in the book by @UVaSARC alumna & architect Spring Braccia Beck who translated our ideas and vision so brilliantly into graphics twitter.com/urbandesignmh/…

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UrbanDesignMH
3 Mar
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Are you ready for a very exciting preview? Drumroll... It's the front cover of our book! Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing is being published on 12th August. You can pre-order it now from Bloomsbury, Amazon, and any bookshop you like! pic.twitter.com/Bntg5k6xDj

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Jenny Roe
1 Mar
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really nice framework, and great to Nature and Wonder (the two are connected) as part of it twitter.com/qualityoflifeu…

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Jenny Roe
28 Feb
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Alongside stronger birdsong I swear rainbows are stronger, skies bluer, rivers clearer under Covid-19 owing to less air pollution. We have confirmatory stats from residents of Richmond Va about similar perceptions pic.twitter.com/5FAqz5KPbc

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28 Feb
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'The Earth could hear itself think': how birdsong became the sound of lockdown theguardian.com/books/2021/fe…

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Jenny Roe
28 Feb
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working from home never was a dream for many young people, working off a laptop in the bedroom of a shared flat, with escalating heating bills to pay (or no heat), with no subsidies from employers twitter.com/TorstenBell/st…

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Jenny Roe
26 Feb
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Thank you @LaylaMcCay for a productive afternoon’s zoom proofing session twitter.com/LaylaMcCay/sta…

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Layla McCay
26 Feb
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Spent a busy afternoon doing proofing for our book and relieved I took a holiday day for this. You probably know this, but book writing is hard work, folks. Especially the bit when you think you’ve finished and then a third round of proofing appears...

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