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breaking news
NEW report AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE
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The Human City Institute (HCi) is a Birmingham-based, independent and charitable research agency. Founded in 1996, HCi grew to manage experimental ‘human neighbourhood’ projects and hold ‘hearings’ that explored what is meant by a ‘human city’. Today, HCI has gone back to its roots as a community-centred research agency exploring the dynamics of ‘human cities’ and promoting solutions to urban problems. HCi is working with a range of partners to carry out research that illuminates the meaning of the ‘human city’ and points the way towards policies that will make our urban communities more sustainable - environmentally and in terms of human happiness and community well-being. |
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HCi
has developed a thematic research programme
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Creating the Human City ~ covering primarily the policy areas of housing, health, and community development. |
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Faith, Ethnicity & Exclusion ~ including the geography of faith and BME groups and their relative social and economic exclusion. |
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Urban Social Investment, Enterprise & Innovation ~ covering the role of social investment approaches and development of innovative, social enterprises within communities to alleviate poverty and disadvantage. |
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Chronicling Human City Community Projects & Approaches ~ incorporating longitudinal and case studies of human neighbourhood projects and approaches. |
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Sustainable Human Environments ~ build around studies of how local human environments can be made more sustainable in relation to the wider world. |
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Human City Index ~ constructed around data that enables measurement of such concepts as community well-being and individual ‘happiness’. |
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A
varied research programme is currently underway.
Key topic examples are:
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Ten year retrospective of human city development. |
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Social housing tenants, inequalities in wealth and asset-bases welfare |
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A modernisation agenda for 21st Century housing. |
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Needs assessments of the Somali, Vietnamese and Chinese communities. |
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Quality of community life and residential aspirations survey. |
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Mapping of faith groups and social exclusion nationally, regionally and locally. |
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Mapping health inequalities in Birmingham’s Asian Communities. |
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Housing and mental health issues in Walsall. |
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Development of our ‘No Community Left Behind/Face-to-Face’ strategy. |
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Co-operative and mutual housing in England. |
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Welcome to our website. We hope that it opens a door onto our work and engages those who share our goal of creating more ‘human cities’. I have taken on the role of HCi’s Chair at a time of great change in the economy, in the political terrain and in the policy environment. This presents a small research charity like HCi with a major challenge. Having had three successful years in turning the charity around, HCi now plans to move to the next level and develop a more influential role informing future policy development through a thematic research programme, creation of research Commissions and by partnership approaches with communities, opinion-formers and policy-makers. |
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