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Urban planning and design directly shape how we live, move, work, and interact. These everyday patterns influence not only individual well-being but also the health of our planet. Poorly planned cities can reinforce unsustainable consumption, pollution, and sprawl, while well-designed ones can promote healthier lifestyles, cleaner environments, and social equity.

At UUA, we see health as both an input and an outcome of planning and design. Our goal is to create urban environments that encourage long-term, structural improvements for both people and ecosystems.

We investigate:

• How the form and design of cities influence human behavior, health, and equity.
• Socio-spatial interventions such as street and land use planning, interactive playgrounds, and digital tools that encourage healthy behavior.
• Planetary health approaches connecting urban food systems, climate adaptation, and rural-urban interactions.
• The needs of vulnerable groups, including children, young and older adults.

By combining health promotion theories, behavior change science, and urban design, we test and evaluate effective interventions. With the support of digital technologies, we integrate health into all stages of planning: from visioning and modeling to implementation and monitoring.

Technical, sector-based approaches to urban planning no longer suffice to address challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental decline. This research line aims for a future where urban growth and ecological resilience go hand in hand.

We advocate for a systems approach, bringing together diverse stakeholders, human and non-human, to co-create resilient, adaptable urban environments. By bridging sectors and disciplines, we imagine spatial explorations that integrate water, soil, biodiversity, and human activity into sustainable urban living.

We investigate:

• Climate-resilient cities: How adaptation to drought, flooding, and heat can also improve livability and quality of life.
• Ecological transition and nature-inclusive practices: Exploring commons, participatory design, and more-than-human perspectives in neighborhoods.
• Rural-urban transitions: Reframing urbanization by studying landscapes historically, testing alternative land uses, and reconnecting rural and urban systems.

Our work uses multi-scalar approaches, from regions to neighborhoods to individual buildings, and emphasizes evidence-based practice. Through scenario building, backcasting and prefiguration, we define practical steps toward resilient, nature-inclusive futures.

The Inclusive Cities research line asks: How can we build fair, livable, and resilient cities within planetary boundaries? We focus on transformative urban strategies that prioritize justice, equity, and well-being, especially for those whose voices are often overlooked.

Housing is central. In a time of shortages, financialization, and increasing precarity, we study how policy frameworks, design cultures, and community practices shape daily life and access to shelter. Our work bridges the private and the collective, exploring how homes and neighborhoods can be reimagined as spaces of resilience and solidarity.

We investigate:

• Dwelling practices and placemaking: How individuals and communities create a sense of identity, belonging, and well-being through space, culture, and nature.
• Sharing practices and new living concepts: From co-living and student housing to intergenerational and refugee accommodations, exploring how shared living fosters inclusivity, resilience, and sustainable use of space.
• Seeds of hope: Everyday practices and urban commons that point to post-growth futures.

By drawing on planning, urban sociology, and geography, we contribute to broader debates on just urban transitions and collaborative planning, informing policies and designs that create equitable urban futures.

Cities are not static 鈥� they are shaped by layers of history, culture, and community life. Our research on Resilient Cities takes a socio-temporal perspective, seeing historical urban landscapes (HULs) as key to adapting to today鈥檚 social, economic, and ecological challenges.

These landscapes hold both tangible assets (buildings, infrastructure) and intangible value (local knowledge, identity, cultural memory). Because of their adaptability and accessibility, HULs can host new social, cultural, and economic initiatives in more sustainable ways than new-build developments.

We investigate:

• Entrepreneurial practices and placemaking: How cultural, social, and economic actors co-create new working and living environments that encourage experimentation and innovation 鈥� while avoiding exclusion and gentrification.
• Public entrepreneurship and urban commoning: How citizens and communities pool resources to deliver public benefits, build livelihoods, and strengthen civic life.
• Innovation districts and incubators: How urban and architectural settings can facilitate inclusive and circular economies, while fostering identity, ownership, and collective organization.

This research line focuses on brownfields, central business districts, and institutional complexes as fertile grounds for renewal. By combining historical awareness with forward-looking strategies, we aim to balance continuity and change, supporting cities that are both rooted and resilient.