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Fat Cities and Food Deserts: : Exploring a socio-spatial continuum
Parham, Susan (2007-11-30)Abstract: Just as in Australian cities, European urban areas are suffering an increasing spatial, social, economic and political divide between the food enabled and those whose health is suffering from poor food choices. ... -
Food and Urbanism : The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future
Parham, Susan (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015-02-26)As the title signifies, through both primary and secondary research the book explores aspects of designing cities that support positive food relationships (defined in terms of urbanist and sustainability outcomes) from the ... -
Food, landscape and urban design
Parham, Susan (Routledge, 2018-03-04)Co-written and illustrated with Dr Jacques Abelman, the chapter focuses in summary on how design relates to food landscapes and why this matters. It explores theoretical antecedents for the way that urban design investigations ... -
From the agora to the modern marketplace : food markets as landscapes of pleasure, purpose and plenty in historical review
Parham, Susan (Routledge, 2018-03-04)The interplay of landscape and the townscape of food markets has profoundly influenced the shaping of urban and rural space throughout history. Just as food markets themselves have been central to the formation of cities ... -
Garden Cities - Why Not?
Parham, Susan; Boyfield, Keith (International Garden Cities Institute, 2016-07-14)Here is a conundrum. Garden Cities are almost universally seen as a good idea, but we seem to have difficulties creating any new ones. Why is this the case? That question forms the basis of this paper. We want to know what ... -
La Garden City, une référence pour le requalification de la ville diffuse
Parham, Susan; Sadoux, Stéphane; Novarina, Gilles; Artis, Amélie; Ames, David (2017)Conceived at the end of the 19th century by Ebenezer Howard and implemented in Letchworth then Welwyn, the garden cities model is based on the desire to offer quality housing to the working classes. Since then, this model ... -
'Happy City: transforming our lives through urban design' by Charles Montgomery
Parham, Susan (Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)Book review -
Hertfordshire Guide to Growth : Five Years On
Parham, Susan; Hulme, James (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2014)Five years ago the University of Hertfordshire and our chancellor, Lord Salisbury, sponsored the Hertfordshire Charrette, which was guided by Andrés Duany with assistance from the BRE and Turnberry Consultants, and involved ... -
Living heritage : Universities as anchor institutions in sustainable communities
Parham, Susan; Green, Alix; Lloyd, Sarah (2013)The term ‘heritage’ has many meanings across the English-speaking world, but what is not in doubt is the importance of history as a living tradition. As a channel that connects people imaginatively, often emotionally, with ... -
Market Place : Food Quarters, Design and Urban Renewal in London
Parham, Susan (Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), 2012-12)The book explores the revitalisation of food market centred space in social process and urban design terms in contemporary London -
People, products and places (Research Final Report) : Exploring sustainable-living practices in masterplanned communities
Parham, Susan; McCormack, John; Jones, Alasdair (University of Hertfordshire, 2015) -
People, products and places (Research Report Summary) : Exploring sustainable-living practices in masterplanned communities
Parham, Susan; McCormack, John; Jones, Alasdair (University of Hertfordshire, 2015)This summary describes our research work to produce People, products and places: Exploring sustainable-living practices in masterplanned communities. The work is part of the ‘University of Hertfordshire Lafarge Tarmac ... -
Place shaping : A guide to undertaking development in Broadland
Parham, Susan; Knight, Lewis; Gaze, Christopher (BRE, 2012)A guidance document for Broadland Council to guide the design of new urban development -
Plugging the gap – can planned infrastructure address resistance to adoption of electric vehicles?
Bevis, Keith; Smyth, Austin; Walsh, S. (2013-10-02) -
Plugging the gap? : Addressing resistance to the adoption of electric vehicles through a University based e-car club: a United kingdom case study approach
Copsey, Scott; Walsh, Sue; Smyth, Austin; Catulli, Maurizio; Southern, Richard (2014-10-01) -
Rapporteur’s comments on four sessions about ‘Food Matters’
Parham, Susan (2015-09-03) -
Reflecting on sustainable architecture and urbanism as 'an ecology of living'
Parham, Susan (2017)The article provides a short overview reflecting on sustainable architecture and urbanism in terms of 'an ecology of living' - and the nature of what constitutes sustainable architecture in those terms might seem rather ... -
'Reinventing London' by Bridget Rosewell
Parham, Susan ((LSE) London School of Economics and Political Science, 2014-03-14)Book review -
Retrofitting for food security : the case of urban food quarters
Parham, Susan (2012-04)This paper and presentation focus on recent research in London on the renewal of food centred space around revived markets. These spaces combine elements of traditional urbanism and new forms of socio-spatial practice that ...