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Walking interviews: Willesden Junction to Harlesden Canalside

From surveys to stories: Uncovering health equity across the UK

Site surveys for social impact

Young people's voices on regeneration

Growing social connections

Building social infrastructure: the Walworth Living Room

Valuing libraries

Our work on social infrastructure

Putting social value & lived experience at the heart of post-occupancy evaluation

Funding community arts with developer contributions

Codesigning a social value framework for a new youth hub

Collaborative action research with Age UK Lewisham & Southwark

We Walworth: evaluating the work

We Walworth: what we are learning

Researching Downham

Relational ethics in place-based research

The slippery concept of social value

Aylesbury Estate: revisiting the impact of the regeneration

The impact of community programmes on community power and health equity

Learning about digital exclusion alongside seniors & carers

Moving research into practice

Young people's experiences of COVID and lockdown

Understanding Southwark during COVID-19

Participatory research with Southwark Young Advisors

Social infrastructure in times of crisis

Enghave Minipark: Update on the bench where everyone can sit

Being Alive on In/tangible Margins: social re-search in Taiwan in a time of pandemic

Challenges & possibilities for place-based research during COVID-19

Researching crisis: reflections on policy research during a pandemic

Researching local communities in the UK: the importance of trust

Researching COVID-19 in Peru's Amazon

Social research during a time of pandemic

London’s social infrastructure: at the epicentre of the crisis through lockdown

How we understand social value

Remembering the first lockdown through our maps

Understanding Southwark

Researching everyday life in a time of pandemic

Increasing participation in London and Seoul

Creating a social sustainability toolkit for Gloucestershire

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Call for examples of innovative models of social infrastructure

Social innovation in industrial towns: lessons from Bright Future

Mapping Community Dynamics

Our new resilience model for Hounslow: new housing developments and community resilience

Our new resilience model for Hounslow: how population change and migration affects community resilience

Our new resilience model for Hounslow: the London story

Our new resilience model for Hounslow: how has resilience changed?

Measuring resilience in local neighbourhoods: our new model for Hounslow

Sensing Boundaries in Elephant & Castle

Welcoming Namji Kim

Urban Regeneration in Glen Innes, Tāmaki Makaurau - Lessons on Bad Practice

In search of London's Old Kent Road

Belonging & change

Lessons from Seoul about 1960s shopping centres

Living in London, See you again

Social innovation in small industrial towns: lessons from Kajaani

An exploration of identities in the Elephant

From Jangwi to Basildon

Predicting community resilience in Hounslow

Queering place

Empowering people living in temporary accommodation

What can Seoul teach the UK about community engagement?

Social Life in Seoul again

The feeling of Walworth

Qué es la sustentabilidad social? - Our social sustainability framework in Spanish

The Obelisk at St George's Circus

Social and Cultural Values of Urban Nature in Walworth, South London: An Introduction

International Day of Happiness: Exploring the relationship between place, cities, and happiness

The feeling of Huddersfield

Gyldenrisparken: estate regeneration in Denmark

Jafra Team R2R in Greece - فريق جفرا في اليونان

Refugees and forced migrants as hosts in Athens and London

Thinking about the human scale

Neighbourhoods for life, where age does not matter

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Big Data in Castle Vale

From industrial to cultural city – how Aalborg became the happiest city in Europe.

Walking ethnographies

Mapping local assets: why it matters

Social Network Analysis: how to visualise relationships in your community

mixed tenure London map

Mixed housing: where's the evidence?

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Our Jane's Walk

Mapping the Social City: Introducing the Atlas of Social Maps

Mapping the social city: What we found

Building your city through crowdfunding – Rotterdam’s ‘Luchtsingel’

An alternative map of cities

The Old Kent Road's future?

Participatory mapping as a social digital tool

Seven examples of placemaking in San Francisco and the Bay Area - a visitor's perspective

Vores arbejde med social bæredygtighed – an introduction to our Social Sustainability Framework in Danish

South Acton Estate and its street art

SL workshop malmo feb 2013

Malmö: taking a bet on innovation

Mapping the social city: share your maps

Map Kibera

Mapping the social city: call for contributions

Mapping South Africa

salt road map

Seoul City's Salt Road project

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Placemaking in the US: Project for Public Spaces

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‘Spaceships’ invade El Alto, Bolivia

Enghave Square: ‘A bench where everybody can sit’

Welcome to our new website

Auchencairn

Places that love people

The vivid diversity of Kuala Lumpur

Sutton SS

DIY social sustainability assessment

Community markets strengthening Seoul's neighbourhoods

Open Apartments: digital citizen engagement in Seoul

도시 커뮤니티 지원 : 서울시로부터의 레슨

Supporting urban communities: lessons from Seoul

Trading Places... The Elephant in the room

Seoul: community need and housing aspirations.

Trading Places: Elephant & Castle shopping centre

Tokyo street life

Roehampton's Alton estate

Measuring social sustainability in new housing developments

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Living in Tall Buildings: lessons for London

Making Memory in the City

The Social Life of Cities Collaborative

Green Growth: the Incredible Edible effect

The Future of Healthy Communities

The Social Life of Cities: stories about urban innovation

The Social Flow

Isla Urbana: The Rooftop Rain Revolution

An Open Courtyard in the Maximum City

Opening The Box on Magaliesburg

Losing the Plot in Buenos Aires

Colombia at the forefront of Latin American social innovation

Large-scale social innovation: Tower-block regeneration, Malmö

"Space in between" lessons from Chicagoland’s Community Leaders

Celebrating what Southbank's skateboarders give to London

Quality of life & our relationship to place

Gangnam Style To Sungmisan Style: South Korea's urban villages

African Cities: The Experience Of The 21st Century City

Yes, But Where Are All The People? - Sydney, Australia

Athens: Social Unity Through Urban Crisis

City Streets: Urban Innovation On A Human Scale

Should birds of a feather always flock together?

Reconnecting places & people

Somerleyton Says: Community-led development for Brixton

Plugging The Gap Turning Strangers into Neighbours

Avoiding those 'New Town Blues'

The Resilience Illusion

Squeezed out?

Urgent need for innovation in placemaking

Wellbeing and resilience on a Brixton estate

What does social sustainability really mean?

A feel good legacy for the Olympics?

Flash Blocks, Bringing Barter to Main Street

Building community resilience in Chicago's South Side

What to do with £400 million?

What Can We Learn From Utopian Planners?

Access to the Olympics

The Social Life of Cities: What is the designer's role?

What can elected mayors do for our cities?

Why Does Place Matter?

Placing social sustainablity on the design agenda

Too Big To Fail? Why Cities Need to Rethink Sustainability

Sustainable Cities: Where are the People?

Welcome to the new Social Life blog

A Community Land Trust for the Olympic Park: Making it work

Seoul: community need and housing aspirations.

Manuel Castells at Occupy London

Getting new communities right first time

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody

Want calmer cities? Build socially sustainable communities

Tottenham Together: Voices from Tottenham after the 2011 riots

Somers Town: Perceptions of Place

Social Life and Super Cities

Riots overshadow loss of high tech Olympic legacy

The High Line, NYC: Grass-roots urban development gone off track?

Asset-based Community Activism: Lessons from Seattle

Enroling Nature: social cohesion aided by the natural environment

Can social change be co-created?

What makes local innovation work?

Getting Community Engagement Right in Barking

Creative engagement in Barking

Building Healthy Places

Community organising in the Big Society

“You can build places, but what are they like to live in?”

Lessons from Malmö

Making Just Space - networks of support for active communities

When Anthropology meets Urban Design

Why invest in community involvement?

Who cares about the built environment?

Community Action Toolkit

The Importance of Social Offerings, Openness and Beauty

People, Planning and the Web

What makes a city buzz? Lessons for building new communities

Belonging and wellbeing in new communities

Designing in neighbourliness in HafenCity

Can social relationships help us live longer?

Learning from global cities through the Social Innovation eXchange

Belonging in Barking

Should every development have a community garden?

Joost Beunderman: ‘the shape of things to come’

The latest from the coalition, from Kate Dalzell

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