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“…successful urban places must combine quality in three essential elements: physical space, the sensory experience and activity.”

“...there is evidence to suggest that climate change does, and will increasingly, exacerbate underlying social inequities that contribute to urban health inequities.”

“…the traces of a new urban sociology that is neither reducible to people nor place.”

“More than 50% of the world’s population lives in urban and peri-urban areas and this is expected to increase dramatically as world population increases from 7 to 9 billion people.” - Manning, W. J. (2016) Urban health & wellbeing - Preface, Environmental Pollution, 208(Part A), p. 1.

“'Place' means more to humans than just the physical space they inhabit. The social environment describes the structure and characteristics of relationships among people within a community.”

“While cities face major problems, from poverty to pollution, they are also powerhouses of economic growth and catalysts form inclusion and innovation.”

“Nothing in mental health will become clear unless we can look at the environment.”

“The growing evidence of the ‘malign’ criminogenic effects of permeability, mixed-use development, laneways and rear parking are pertinent to planning and to New Urbanism.”

“All problems become more concentrated in the close confines of urban areas, yet cities are poised for unlimited growth.”

“...we found the more compact street networks correlated with reduced rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.”

“Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and the likely health impacts, are unequally distributed across populations both spatially and in terms of demographic groupings.”

"While air quality improvements have been made since the early 20th century, it is clear we must address the ongoing problem of air pollution and we all have a role to play, however big or small."

“The most impressive feature of the last three decades has been the resurgence of cities and especially of the big cities.”

“It is clear that some quite fundamental things need to change if the UK is going to be able to meet the challenges it will face by 2065.”

“It is hasty to assume that building infrastructure alone will bring about a cycling renaissance from the low levels typical of the UK. Successful cycling programmes have been multi-faceted.”