MAGIC: Managing Air for Green Inner Cities

MAGIC is an £4.3M, 5-year EPSRC Grand Challenge on Future Cities - ‘engineering approaches that restore the balance between engineered and natural systems’. It is a collaboration between Cambridge, Imperial College London and Surrey University.

VISION

Imagine a city with no air pollution or heat-island.

This vision provides a unifying focus for global issues of sustainability, resilience, resource use efficiency and societal health and wellbeing. It impacts all aspects of city life, from central planning to individual action and response, and addresses the adaptations and changes expected from advances in technology, population, social expectations, and climate.

 

While the goal of a city with zero heat island and pollution levels is probably not strictly attainable, it is critically important that it remains the target as a 'holy grail': as something to be strived for and to provide a beacon for decisions.

What is needed is a roadmap to ensure that decisions taken as cities evolve lead to a sustainable future. The key to progress is the ability to treat the city as a complete, integrated system.

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PEOPLE

Principal Investigator

Paul Linden           DAMTP, Cambridge

Lead Co-Investigators

Christopher Pain   Imperial College London

Alan Robins             Surrey Univeristy

Post-doctoral Researchers

Megan Davies Wykes           DAMTP, Cambridge

Shiweu Fan                           Chemistry, Cambridge

William Lin                             Mechanical  Engineering, Surrey

Laetitia Mottet                        Architecture, Cambridge & Imperial

James O’Neill                        Geography, Cambridge

Jiyun  Song                           DAMTP/Architecture, Cambridge

Dunhui Xiao                          Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial

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Further information can also be found at http://www.magic-air.uk