Here & Now Journal - Summer 2025 - Healthy Urban Living

1. Welcome

2. Letter from the Editors

3. The Academy in Action

4. On Healthy Urbanism
Ana Gallego unpacks the concept of healthy urbanism

6. Ebbsfleet: Delivering a Healthy Garden City for the 21st Century
Kevin McGeough offers a UK perspective on acheiving healthy urbanism through New Towns

8. Project Climate Playground
For those who missed him at Congress, Cedric Ryckaert dives into the Klimaatspeelplaats story.

10. Healthy Urban Living: Lessons from Utrecht Congress
AoU Directors reflect on lessons learnt from this year’s Congress, concluding on six pointers for other urban centres.

14. Revealing the Regenerative Links between People, Places and Planet
The Architecture of Exchanges cohort urge us to design cities as if relationships were the infrastructure

18. Biking Brussels to Ghent
Johanna Gewolker and Ben Meador recap another successful Young Urbanist Cycle Trip

23. MyPlace
Contributors reflect on the significant places in their lives

24. ArtPlace
Artworks inspired by the built environment

26. Member Spotlight
From Belgrade to Barnsley, AoU Photographer-in-Residence David Kennedy looks back on the journey that made a public policy student into an urbanist

28. Book Review
Harry Knibb reviews How to Thrive in the Planning Jungle

29. Urban Idiocy
In a rare first, the Urban Idiot finds minimal gripe within the pages of Thomas Sharp’s Town Planning

32. Urban Philosophy
Resident philosopher Andreas Markides ponders the myth of Pandora’s Box and likens it to a 21st century predicament