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Contributor(s): Dr Alan Mace, Fanny Blanc, Barney Stringer, Catriona Riddell, Jonathan Seager, Richard Blyth | Housing should be strategically built on the Metropolitan Green Belt to halt its piecemeal development and alleviate development pressure on the Wider South East, while protecting environmentally important areas, says a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to the report, A 21st Century Metropolitan Green Belt, current planning regulations allow for parts of the green belt to be chipped away while preventing the building of settlements which make more sense strategically and environmentally. This short film highlights some of the key findings.

Contributor(s): Kathleen Scanlon | New research published by LSE and the Berkeley Group explores how urban villages could help address the capital's housing crisis. The report, called 'New London Villages', identifies six characteristics of a real urban village. These include being a place that is unique, mixed, locally driven and designed for social interaction. The authors then tested Kidbrooke Village in the Royal Borough of Greenwich against them and made a series of recommendations for all new major developments in London.

Contributor(s): Mona Sloane, Joanne Entwistle, Don Slater | Light is fundamental to social life. Light, by the same token, can play a key role in reproducing urban inequalities. This film follows the Configuring Light Roundtables project which sets out to explore light as critical urban material and map out how social research and cross-disciplinary collaboration can help make our cities better and more equitable – by day and night.

Contributor(s): Dr Michael Muthukrishna | In this film Dr Michael Muthukrishna explains the main ideas in his research paper ‘Innovation in the Collective Brain’. He argues that innovation is not the work of geniuses, but rather the product of our combined social knowledge. In short, if you want to be an innovator, it’s better to be social than smart.

Contributor(s): Sonia Livingstone | This is a general overview of the EU kids Online project.

Contributor(s): Ellen Helsper, Giovanna Mascheroni, Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Monica Barbovschi, Nathalie Sonck, Sonia Livingstone | These videos are of the thematic reports from the EU Kids online project.

Contributor(s): Ellen Helsper, Giovanna Mascheroni, Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Monica Barbovschi, Nathalie Sonck, Sonia Livingstone | These videos are of the thematic reports from the EU Kids online project.

Contributor(s): Ellen Helsper, Giovanna Mascheroni, Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Monica Barbovschi, Nathalie Sonck, Sonia Livingstone | These videos are of the thematic reports from the EU Kids online project.

Contributor(s): Ellen Helsper, Giovanna Mascheroni, Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Monica Barbovschi, Nathalie Sonck, Sonia Livingstone | These videos are of the thematic reports from the EU Kids online project.

Contributor(s): Ellen Helsper, Giovanna Mascheroni, Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Monica Barbovschi, Nathalie Sonck, Sonia Livingstone | These videos are of the thematic reports from the EU Kids online project.