Transforming the
Engineering of
Cities for Global
and Societal
Wellbeing

Research Challenges

Research Team

Joanne Leach Joanne Leach
Researcher and Project Manager University of Birmingham
Chris Rogers Chris Rogers
Principal Investigator University of Birmingham
Rachel Cooper Rachel Cooper
Co-investigator Lancaster University
AbuBakr	 Bahaj AbuBakr Bahaj
Co-investigator University of Southampton
Nick Tyler Nick Tyler
Co-investigator UCL
Brian Collins Brian Collins
Co-investigator UCL

Our ambition

To create an holistic, integrated, truly multi-disciplinary city analysis methodology, which uniquely integrates wellbeing indicators, is founded on an evidence base of trials of radical interventions in cities, and delivers the realistic and radical engineering solutions necessary to achieve our vision

Our vision

To transform the engineering of cities to deliver global and societal wellbeing within the context of low carbon living and resource security through developing realistic and radical engineering that demonstrates the concept of an alternative future

Research Updates

Artificial Lighting and Low Carbon Cities

 Artificial Lighting and Low Carbon Cities

Artificial lighting has fundamentally changed the earth’s night-time environment, with implications for human wellbeing and low carbon living.

Much of this lighting is concentrated in cities, bringing a range of benefits and costs to urban populations.  Research by Jon Sadler and James Hale (University of Birmingham) is mapping artificial...

Launch Event Report and Presentations

We are pleased to make available the full report and presentations from the launch of the Liveable Cities programme (Measuring the Sustainable City Summit).

You can​ download the following documents from this page:

Burning Issues

What are the burning issues, the top priorities and challenges, for creating 80% carbon reduced liveable cities?

On the 20 July 2012 the Liveable Cities team met with 20 urban design and development professionals and asked this very question.  Their responses are contained in this report.

City Analysis Framework development update

City Analysis Framework development update

The initial development of the City Analysis Framework is the primary activity in the project's first twelve months.  The first step is to understand what city analysis methodologies currently exist, what they cover and how they work.  Parallel to this is unpicking what we need to know to establish a...

Future Events

Lancaster University

Call for Participation Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research As part of celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster...

Past Events

The Royal Society, London

A copy of the post-event report is available from this website in the Research Updates section, by clicking here or upon...

Winterbourne House, Nicholson Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham, http://www.venuebirmingham.com/meet/nicolson-building

The third bi-annual meeting of the Liveable Cities Expert Panels will take place on Thursday the 6th of...

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20 July 2012

A copy of the post-event report is available from this website in the Research Updates section, by clicking here or upon request to Joanne leach...