Stories
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Article
The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
- Article
How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
- Podcast
The Garden
We explore ideas of belonging and colonial legacies, guerrilla gardening in response to a tragic event, and the link between an urban nature reserve and a GP’s surgery.
Catalogue
- Books
Urban health services : fifth report of the Expert Committee on Public Health Administration.
World Health Organization. Expert Committee on Public-Health Administration.Date: 1963- Books
- Online
Report / Medical Officer of Health for the Urban Sanitary District of Fulwood.
Fulwood (Preston, Lancashire England). Urban Sanitary District.Date: [1913-14]- Books
Urban forestry in practice : hospital greenspace as an aid to healthcare / [National Urban Forestry Unit].
National Urban Forestry UnitDate: [2002]- Books
Urban health in America / Amasa B. Ford.
Ford, Amasa B., 1922-2007.Date: 1976- Archives and manuscripts
Urban area
Date: 1999Reference: GC/280/13-27aPart of: 'Understanding Health Variations and Policy Variations'