Cormac Auty
@cormacauty
London-based researcher passionate about analysing how people in cities relate to their evolving environments and uncovering actionable insights to strengthen social resilience in our cities.
Cormac Auty
cormacauty.com
Promoting belonging in difficult times helps give people a sense of control when so many aspects of life seem precarious. Our sense of belonging to our local areas is a social asset built up over time, but we cannot take it for granted.
Nicola Bacon, Belonging, The RSA Journal
Some young people noted that feelings of belonging are not fixed. They described how the transformation of their neighbourhoods affected local relationships, attachments and the identity of local areas.
Nicola Bacon, Belonging, The RSA Journal
The Greater London Authority’s 2021 Survey of Londoners shows that more people feel they belong to London than to their neighbourhood.
Nicola Bacon, Belonging, The RSA Journal
Don't create a complicated system, and don't keep trying out new tools. It's a waste of time, as fun as it is.
Leo Babauta • Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System
But it also felt like you could be anyone you wanted here. That urban indifference is the upside of city living, the anonymity part of the attraction. No one knows you, yet neither do they have any expectation. Your own life here is a blank page waiting to be written on, or an empty stage ready to be walked upon.
Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Ha
... See moreIceland regularly features in the top five of happy countries, yet according to the Nordic Labour Journal, income accounts for 1 per cent of the reason for Icelanders' happiness. I can see what the remaining 99 per cent is made up of: they have other paths to happiness, other routes to a richer life, by feeling connected to their surroundings, to b
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Most of our attempts to become better people, fitter and healthier, more moral/ productive/ organised, and so forth, make this problem worse– because it's basically impossible to pursue any program of personal change without the thought, somewhere in the back of your mind, that successfully completing the change will catapult you into a new and som
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