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View article: Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction Open
While informal sport may appear to be a poor relation of formal sport, participation in informal sport is now more popular than organised club sport. The special issue provides an opportunity to showcase international leisure studies resea…
View article: Contextualised Convivialities in Superdiverse Neighbourhoods – Methodological Approaches Informed by Urban Design
Contextualised Convivialities in Superdiverse Neighbourhoods – Methodological Approaches Informed by Urban Design Open
his paper positions questions of conviviality as situational as well as relational, and describes and reflects on methods which give due precedence to different spatial scales, materialities and timeframes. In this urban design research pr…
View article: Urban nature and transnational lives
Urban nature and transnational lives Open
This paper explores ways in which first generation migrants living in a UK city engage with urban nature. Through understanding mundane connections with local nature (plants, animals and seasons), we attend to two questions ‘what can narra…
View article: Nature doesn't judge you – how urban nature supports young people's mental health and wellbeing in a diverse UK city
Nature doesn't judge you – how urban nature supports young people's mental health and wellbeing in a diverse UK city Open
Reviewed research reveals a lack of young people's voices articulating if and how urban nature supports their mental health and wellbeing. This paper presents qualitative research with young multi-ethnic urban residents living in a norther…
View article: Sitting outside: Conviviality, self‐care and the design of benches in urban public space
Sitting outside: Conviviality, self‐care and the design of benches in urban public space Open
The urban bench has been romanticised as a location of intimacy and benign social serendipity, and problematised with regard to perceptions of unwelcome loitering. In this paper we explore embodied practices of sitting on benches within an…
View article: Ethnographic understandings of ethnically diverse neighbourhoods to inform urban design practice
Ethnographic understandings of ethnically diverse neighbourhoods to inform urban design practice Open
The aim of this paper is to inform urban design practice through deeper
\nunderstanding and analysis of the social dynamics of public outdoor
\nspace in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods. We hypothesise that
\nfindings from ethnographic re…