We investigate how urban form shapes everyday life, social interaction, movement, comfort, and environmental experience.
Our work brings together research on urban vitality, architecture–street interfaces, pedestrian behaviour, spatial accessibility, microclimate, green infrastructure, and environmental performance. It treats liveability as both a social and environmental condition, shaped by the interaction between built form, public space, human behaviour, and urban climate.
This line of work asks how streets, buildings, open spaces, and vegetation influence the ways people move, gather, encounter one another, and experience comfort in urban environments. It connects established research on the social life of streets and neighbourhoods with emerging work on thermal comfort, heat mitigation, and climate adaptation.
We study how urban environments shape movement, navigation, cognition, perception, well-being, healthy ageing, and everyday behaviour, from active mobility to restorative and emotionally meaningful urban spaces.
2.1. Urban vitality, co-presence and the life of public spaces
2.2. The morphology of movement, navigation, and urban experience
2.3. Microclimate, thermal comfort and urban resilience