Michael Martin
@mic-martin.bsky.social
Lecturer & Programme Director of Urban Design & Planning, University of Sheffield working in #urbandesign #childfriendlycities #urbanplay 🇮🇪 co-author of ‘Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach’, Routledge Books https://amzn.eu/d/i4dPGoH
Findings show promoting #play in #informalspaces can create:
- Dynamic play opportunities ✅
- Bolster children’s civic access and rights ✅
- Support innovative governance & partnerships for play ✅
- Dynamic play opportunities ✅
- Bolster children’s civic access and rights ✅
- Support innovative governance & partnerships for play ✅
June 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Findings show promoting #play in #informalspaces can create:
- Dynamic play opportunities ✅
- Bolster children’s civic access and rights ✅
- Support innovative governance & partnerships for play ✅
- Dynamic play opportunities ✅
- Bolster children’s civic access and rights ✅
- Support innovative governance & partnerships for play ✅
New research on #Play & #ChildrensRightToTheCity published in #JournalofUrbanDesign
Exploring four international cases of #creativeplacemaking for #children / #play in Australia EU and UK
It uncovers new evidence on the significance of #informalspaces to promote #urbanplay
doi.org/10.1080/1357...
Exploring four international cases of #creativeplacemaking for #children / #play in Australia EU and UK
It uncovers new evidence on the significance of #informalspaces to promote #urbanplay
doi.org/10.1080/1357...
June 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New research on #Play & #ChildrensRightToTheCity published in #JournalofUrbanDesign
Exploring four international cases of #creativeplacemaking for #children / #play in Australia EU and UK
It uncovers new evidence on the significance of #informalspaces to promote #urbanplay
doi.org/10.1080/1357...
Exploring four international cases of #creativeplacemaking for #children / #play in Australia EU and UK
It uncovers new evidence on the significance of #informalspaces to promote #urbanplay
doi.org/10.1080/1357...
Our study provides a NEW framework for identifying #playground interventions within different #cities #towns & #settlements to help improve #play provision nationally in #England
Our evidence base can support improved #policy, #practice and #placemaking for #children and #play
Our evidence base can support improved #policy, #practice and #placemaking for #children and #play
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Our study provides a NEW framework for identifying #playground interventions within different #cities #towns & #settlements to help improve #play provision nationally in #England
Our evidence base can support improved #policy, #practice and #placemaking for #children and #play
Our evidence base can support improved #policy, #practice and #placemaking for #children and #play
Largest study on English #playgrounds developed to date:
- #Leicester has x4 more of its area devoted to #playgrounds than #Leeds
- Nearly x5 more #playgrounds per #child in #Norwich compared to #Liverpool
- In #London, #Islington has x5 the area of playgrounds compared to #Barnet
- #Leicester has x4 more of its area devoted to #playgrounds than #Leeds
- Nearly x5 more #playgrounds per #child in #Norwich compared to #Liverpool
- In #London, #Islington has x5 the area of playgrounds compared to #Barnet
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Largest study on English #playgrounds developed to date:
- #Leicester has x4 more of its area devoted to #playgrounds than #Leeds
- Nearly x5 more #playgrounds per #child in #Norwich compared to #Liverpool
- In #London, #Islington has x5 the area of playgrounds compared to #Barnet
- #Leicester has x4 more of its area devoted to #playgrounds than #Leeds
- Nearly x5 more #playgrounds per #child in #Norwich compared to #Liverpool
- In #London, #Islington has x5 the area of playgrounds compared to #Barnet
NEW #Playgrounds research w. #PaulBrindley
#YueshanMa #RuiWang & #HelenWoolley published in #LandMDPI
Using #opensource data we explore 33,736 #playgrounds in #England
Our study generates a new framework to help reduce #play inequalities nationally
FREE TO ACCESS doi.org/10.3390/land14030477
#YueshanMa #RuiWang & #HelenWoolley published in #LandMDPI
Using #opensource data we explore 33,736 #playgrounds in #England
Our study generates a new framework to help reduce #play inequalities nationally
FREE TO ACCESS doi.org/10.3390/land14030477
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
NEW #Playgrounds research w. #PaulBrindley
#YueshanMa #RuiWang & #HelenWoolley published in #LandMDPI
Using #opensource data we explore 33,736 #playgrounds in #England
Our study generates a new framework to help reduce #play inequalities nationally
FREE TO ACCESS doi.org/10.3390/land14030477
#YueshanMa #RuiWang & #HelenWoolley published in #LandMDPI
Using #opensource data we explore 33,736 #playgrounds in #England
Our study generates a new framework to help reduce #play inequalities nationally
FREE TO ACCESS doi.org/10.3390/land14030477
Massive thanks to #UrbanDesignGroup for hosting last night’s event in #AlanBaxterGallery for our book #AppliedUrbanDesign 📕!
Fab chatting w. practitioners across the #builtenvironment- thanks so much for coming! PhilBlack BobPhillips & I had a blast!
Very cool to see our 📕 in #RIBA bookshop too 😎
Fab chatting w. practitioners across the #builtenvironment- thanks so much for coming! PhilBlack BobPhillips & I had a blast!
Very cool to see our 📕 in #RIBA bookshop too 😎
February 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Massive thanks to #UrbanDesignGroup for hosting last night’s event in #AlanBaxterGallery for our book #AppliedUrbanDesign 📕!
Fab chatting w. practitioners across the #builtenvironment- thanks so much for coming! PhilBlack BobPhillips & I had a blast!
Very cool to see our 📕 in #RIBA bookshop too 😎
Fab chatting w. practitioners across the #builtenvironment- thanks so much for coming! PhilBlack BobPhillips & I had a blast!
Very cool to see our 📕 in #RIBA bookshop too 😎
We are off to Wales 🏴 this morning to present our new Routledge book #AppliedUrbanDesign 📕 @cardiffuni.bsky.social
Big thanks to colleagues across the Schools of Geography & Planning + Architecture for hosting us.
Room 1.67 in the Glamorgan Building from 16.00 if interested - All welcome!
Big thanks to colleagues across the Schools of Geography & Planning + Architecture for hosting us.
Room 1.67 in the Glamorgan Building from 16.00 if interested - All welcome!
February 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We are off to Wales 🏴 this morning to present our new Routledge book #AppliedUrbanDesign 📕 @cardiffuni.bsky.social
Big thanks to colleagues across the Schools of Geography & Planning + Architecture for hosting us.
Room 1.67 in the Glamorgan Building from 16.00 if interested - All welcome!
Big thanks to colleagues across the Schools of Geography & Planning + Architecture for hosting us.
Room 1.67 in the Glamorgan Building from 16.00 if interested - All welcome!
So pleased our project 'Growing Up in Dense Cities' has won a @wunetwork.bsky.social #ResearchDevelopmentAward. Together w. researchers in #Auckland #HongKong #Kampala #BeloHorizonte #Pretoria #Sydney & #UK we will explore impacts of density on children’s health & wellbeing wun.ac.uk/article/resu...
January 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
So pleased our project 'Growing Up in Dense Cities' has won a @wunetwork.bsky.social #ResearchDevelopmentAward. Together w. researchers in #Auckland #HongKong #Kampala #BeloHorizonte #Pretoria #Sydney & #UK we will explore impacts of density on children’s health & wellbeing wun.ac.uk/article/resu...
IT'S HERE! My first book!! And it's an absolute BEAUT!!! 📕♥️🥳🎉
#AppliedUrbanDesign w. Philip black BobPhillips & TakiSonbli published by Routledge Books
A feat almost 10 years in the making😅...
20% DISCOUNT available w. Promo Code AFLY03 routledge.com/Applied-Urban-…
Order now!!
#AppliedUrbanDesign w. Philip black BobPhillips & TakiSonbli published by Routledge Books
A feat almost 10 years in the making😅...
20% DISCOUNT available w. Promo Code AFLY03 routledge.com/Applied-Urban-…
Order now!!
January 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
IT'S HERE! My first book!! And it's an absolute BEAUT!!! 📕♥️🥳🎉
#AppliedUrbanDesign w. Philip black BobPhillips & TakiSonbli published by Routledge Books
A feat almost 10 years in the making😅...
20% DISCOUNT available w. Promo Code AFLY03 routledge.com/Applied-Urban-…
Order now!!
#AppliedUrbanDesign w. Philip black BobPhillips & TakiSonbli published by Routledge Books
A feat almost 10 years in the making😅...
20% DISCOUNT available w. Promo Code AFLY03 routledge.com/Applied-Urban-…
Order now!!
Brilliant collaborating w. #LuyDau @llpaulabarrosll @JuaneeC @BronwynHemsley @ProfLakhanpaul @MelOliverSmith 🌎
We explore the relationship between ‘Urban Density and Child Health & Wellbeing’ published in @socscimed Health & Place
Fully Free to Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal…
We explore the relationship between ‘Urban Density and Child Health & Wellbeing’ published in @socscimed Health & Place
Fully Free to Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal…
January 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Brilliant collaborating w. #LuyDau @llpaulabarrosll @JuaneeC @BronwynHemsley @ProfLakhanpaul @MelOliverSmith 🌎
We explore the relationship between ‘Urban Density and Child Health & Wellbeing’ published in @socscimed Health & Place
Fully Free to Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal…
We explore the relationship between ‘Urban Density and Child Health & Wellbeing’ published in @socscimed Health & Place
Fully Free to Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal…