Lockdown shrank many of our worlds physically to our homes and their immediate neighbourhoods. Research out recently looks at at our experience of lockdown: what does this tell us about how we live now and how we should plan for the future?
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Matthew Carmona Professor of Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning at UCL and Chair of the Place Alliance led the research, that was published recently: "Home comforts: stress testing our homes and neighbourhoods during the Covid-19 lockdown".
This report summarises findings of a national survey of 2,500 households (representing 7,200people) aimed at understanding how well or how poorly the design of our homes and their immediate neighbourhoods supported us during the period of coronavirus lockdown.
The intention was to understand what we can learn from this period of unprecedented stress on our home environments. The findings offer insights into how we should be designing or adapting them in the future in order that they are more resilient and better able to support happy and healthy lifestyles.
This provides ideas for how we live now, and how planning and transport need to be designed in the future.
The ideas in the report are discussed in the recent CIHT podcast featuring an interview with Professor Carmona.
CIHT, in 2019, published 'Better planning, better transport, better places' that outlines changes required to better integrate sustainable transport into planning.
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