Manchester School of Architecture

A national-scale assessment of the impact of canals on urban temperatures

Abstract Urban populations are particularly vulnerable to heat-related mortality and morbidity. Climate-responsive urban design, which can include development of green and bluespaces, has the potential to offset climate change-related impacts. Compared to greenspaces, the effects...

Autonomy, agency and value: an intrinsic approach to the value of autonomy does not escape the expressivist objection – a reply to Long

Long’s argument that an intrinsic approach to the value of autonomy could allow an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying to avoid the expressivist objection fails because autonomy is not the only morally valuable goal, so moral values other than autonomy also require consider...