UTRC Presents “eMOTIONAL Cities”: Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments

UTRC' presents “eMOTIONAL Cities”: Health and Wellbeing in Urban environments by Professor Elisabete A. Silva.

About

While theories about the link between the urban environment and human health and wellbeing have a long scholarly tradition, more systematic evidence and objective measures on how the built environment impacts one’s well-being and health are still lacking. The H2020 European project “Emotional Cities” aims to provide robust scientific evidence on how the natural and built urban environment shapes human cognitive and emotional processing, with a perspective that also incorporates age, gender, and vulnerable groups’ specificities. Using London as the main case study, Professor Silva’s presentation will describe the goals, methods, and findings of each section of the project’s Work Plan 4, "Spatial analysis of urban health," which will provide location-referenced spatial evidence on health determinants.

Biography

Professor Elisabete A. Silva is a British-Portuguese dual citizen with a research track record spanning more than 25 years, encompassing both the public and private sectors. She specialises in spatial analysis and planning. Prof. Silva commenced her work in Cambridge in 2006 and holds memberships in the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Academy of Social Sciences as a Fellow. Additionally, she serves on the editorial boards of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS), Planning Theory & Practice, and Sustainable Development. Prof. Silva's research interests focus on applying new technologies to spatial planning, particularly in city and metropolitan dynamic modeling over time. Her expertise encompasses Urban Planning, Land Use, Transportation, Spatial Analysis, Data Science & Big Data, Complexity Theory, Smart/Digital Cities, Geographic Information Systems, and Planning Support Systems. She also specializes in space-time dynamic models, computation, and dynamic simulation, including soft Artificial Intelligence and AI models such as NN, ABM, and CA models.

Learn more about eMOTIONAL Cities here