Quick Reads
Quick reads on the general subject of health and the built environment
[Article] Wall, T. (2019) ‘“It feels almost like prison”: the developers building homes with no natural light’, The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/19/it-feels-almost-like-prison-the-developers-building-homes-with-no-natural-light . Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article] Wall, T. (2020) ‘Serious design flaws in many housing estates, report claims’, The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/19/housing-giants-put-profit-before-peoples-needs-report-reveals. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article] Olusoga, D. (2018) ‘The Victorian slums are back – and housing developers are to blame again’, The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/16/victorian-slums-housing-developers-housebuilding-inequality. Find it on MDX Library Search
Recommended Reading
[Report] O’Neill, M; Gerstain Pineau, M; Kendall-Taylor, N; Volmert, D; Stevens, A.(2017) Finding a Better Frame: How to Create More Effective Messages on Homelessness in the United Kingdom (2017). FrameWorks Institute. Available at: https://www.crisis.org.uk/media/237700/finding_a_better_frame_2017.pdf .
[Website] Health & wellbeing – Health & Wellbeing – Housing – Topics – Resources – Housing LIN
[Webpage] Guise, A.(2018) Rough Sleeping and the Unhealthy City. Available at: https://www.cost-ofliving.net/rough-sleeping-and-the-unhealthy-city/
[Webpage] de Sa, J.(2017) How does housing influence our health? | The Health Foundation. Available at: https://www.health.org.uk/infographic/how-does-housing-influence-our-health
[Article] WHO. (2018) Housing impacts health: new WHO guidelines on housing and health. https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2018-housing-impacts-health-new-who-guidelines-on-housing-and-health
[Publication] WHO.(2018) WHO Housing and health guidelines. Available at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241550376
[Publication] WHO. (2019) Healthy Housing. Available at: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/healthy-housing
[Webpage] Maggie’s Cancer Care – Everything you need to know about our buildings – the philosophy behind their unique design, the importance of architecture and gardens and how we choose the people we work with: https://www.maggies.org/about-us/how-maggies-works/our-buildings/
[Article] Hanley, L.(2016) Cameron cannot ‘blitz’ poverty by bulldozing housing estates. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/19/cameron-poverty-bulldozing-housing-estates
[Webpage] Morris, N.(2019) How Jan Kattein Architects deliver great community placemaking schemes. How Jan Kattein Architects deliver great community placemaking schemes (architecture.com)
Quick reads on the wider question of the city and population health
[Article] Henley, J. (2019) ‘Homelessness is not inevitable and can be solved – these cities show us how’, The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/10/homelessness-is-not-inevitable-and-can-be-solved-these-cities-show-us-how?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other . Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article] Carrington, D. (2019) ‘Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study’, The Guardian. Available at: Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study | Air pollution | The Guardian . Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article] Mechelli, A.(2019) Cities increase your risk of depression, anxiety and psychosis – but bring mental health benefits too. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/cities-increase-your-risk-of-depression-anxiety-and-psychosis-but-bring-mental-health-benefits-too-128911
Quick Listens
[Webpage] Milliband, E; Lloyd, G; Boughton, J; Warsi, S; O’Neill, J.(2019) 69. A SOCIAL HOME REVOLUTION: the history and future of council housing | Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd on acast. https://play.acast.com/s/reasonstobecheerful/38b02417-b036-45b6-bc34-574cad3d9d9e
[Webpage] Ansell, B; Mikhail, D; Yawson, J; Hardyment, C; Marr, A.(2020) BBC Radio 4 – Start the Week, A house and a home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000czkl
[Video] Abbey, C; Boys Smith, N; Moore, R; Page, B .(2016) Homes Not Houses: Putting Wellbeing First (Video). Legatum Institute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMH4t4BBHxw
[Webpage] Taylor, L; Lee Koc, I; Slate, T.(2020) BBC Radio 4 – Thinking Allowed, Estates. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00094jg
[Video] Murray, C.(2017) Conrad Murray – No Books on Vimeo. DenMarked. https://vimeo.com/206264422
E-resources
This e-learning module has been developed by Public Health England to help healthcare professionals assist people living in cold homes.
[Webpage] Public Health England;Kerry, J; the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Desai, M; the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Shelter.(2019) Helping People Living in Cold Homes programme – e-Learning for Healthcare. https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/cold-homes/
Further Reading
[Book] Minton, Anna.(2017) Big capital : who is London for? London. Penguin Books. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article]
Minton, A. (2017) ‘High rise living after Grenfell’, BMJ : British medical journal. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j2981. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] Wilkinson, R.G. and Pickett, K. (2010) The spirit level : why equality is better for everyone. Rev. ed. London: Penguin. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] McGrath, L. and Reavey, P. (2018) The handbook of mental health and space : community and clinical applications. Edited by L. McGrath and P. Reavey. London: Routledge. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Article] Beswick, K. (2011) ‘The council estate: representation, space and the potential for performance’, Research in drama education., 16(3), pp. 421–435. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2011.589999. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] Piketty, T. and Goldhammer, A. (2014) Capital in the twenty-first century. Translated by A. Goldhammer. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Book] Overy, P. (2007) Light, air & openness : modern architecture between the wars. London: Thames & Hudson. Find it on MDX Library Search
[Webpage] Griffiths, C; Morrin, A; Macinnes, G; Greenwood, L; Stacey, H; Thrift, J; Chang, M; MacRae, C; Taylor-Doyle, S.(2021) Securing Constructive Collaboration and Consensus for Planning Healthy Developments | Town and Country Planning Association. https://www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/securing-constructive-collaboration-and-consensus-for-planning-healthy-developments/
[Book] Schrank, S. and Ekici, D. (2018) Healing spaces, modern architecture, and the body. London: Routledge. Find it on MDX Library Search