Evidence, practical guides, and conversation-starters.
Download our free resources and spread the word about why we need to humanise our towns and cities.
For everyone
A Spotter’s Guide to human buildings
A mobile-friendly guide to help you spot human buildings when you’re out and about.
Research
The latest reports we’ve commissioned about the way buildings affect us.
Guides
Practical guides for professionals — resources for developers, planners, community organisations and design teams.
Reading Groups
Book groups around the world are reading Humanise and using it to discuss the buildings around them.
Why not use our resources to host your own group?
Interested in partnering with us? Download a presentation to share with colleagues (PDF 1.4mb)
Research
Why the outsides of buildings matter to human health: a global evidence review
Our pioneering study which brings together all the latest research on how the outsides of buildings affects our brains, bodies and behaviours.
Research
Can New Towns be joy towns?
How residents of England’s New Towns feel about the buildings where they live.
Research
What kind of buildings stress you out?
A study exploring visual comfort in Seoul and the future of design.
Research
Hanok to high-rise: what the people of Seoul really think about buildings in their city
Our new research explores the attitudes of a range of Seoulites towards buildings, how they make them feel, and how they’d like new buildings to look in future.
Research
Passing by, or going in?
Which parts of a building should we lavish the most care on: the parts that only a few people see, or the parts most people see?
Research
Boring or interesting: you decide
A survey of UK public attitudes to building design by Thinks Insight & Strategy.
Research
Every city is a conversation: why Humanise matters to the UK
An essay by Chris Murray of Urban Psyche.
Research
Building and thriving: a review of the evidence linking building design to health and wellbeing
A review of the evidence linking building design to health and wellbeing.
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