Healthy Urban Places Seminar - "A century of evolution: How high streets, connectivity and change shape health overtime"

This episode in the series will be focusing on 'A century of evolution: How high streets, connectivity and change shape health overtime', hosted by Healthy Urban Places very own Adriana Ortegon Sanchez, Research Fellow in Historical Spatial Mapping from The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. 

In this talk Adriana and the Healthy Urban Places team will explore high streets as vital social and physical structures of everyday life. Using 120 years of spatial data across Liverpool and Bradford, this seminar explores how high streets act as long-term health assets. We will examine how connectivity, built form, and land-use shape everyday movement, social interaction, and wellbeing across more than a century of urban change.

The Healthy Urban Places project aims to understand how local urban places impact health and how this understanding can be used to help cities become healthier and happier places to live.

As part of this project, we will be hosting a series of online seminars that will aim to explore a variety of research topics relating to the impact of urban environments on health by inviting guest speakers to share their research.
The 2026 seminars will take place online at 11am on the last Wednesday of the chosen month.