Our Team
Lucy Saunders
Lucy is a unique combination of public health specialist, urbanist and transport planner. She created the Healthy Streets Approach, an evidence based-framework for decision making at every level to embed public health in city transport, public realm and planning. Building on her success implementing this approach in London she now shares her expertise with cities and regions globally working with government, academic, private, philanthropic and voluntary sector organisations. She is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health and has Masters in Geography and Public Health.
Grant Waters
Grant is the founding Director of Tranquil City, a multi-disciplinary environmental data analytics company whose mission is to promote healthier ways of urban living. Grant is a qualified acoustic consultant, specialising in urban soundscapes and architectural acoustics, and has over 7 years experience working in the field since graduating from London Metropolitan University in 2012. He is a Member of the Institute of Acoustics and has published in peer-reviewed journals including Cities and Health. His work focusses on how acoustics and environmental quality can be better understood by the public to promote healthier urban lifestyles.
Ashley Dhanani PhD
Ashley is a consultant and academic. He has a proven track record of translating research into tools for public and private sector applications. The tools he has developed have been used by Transport for London (TfL), the Greater London Authority (GLA), the UKs Department for Transport (DfT), Living Streets and some of the UKs largest regional authorities. He has a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism, Masters in Geographic Information Science and Bachelor’s degree in Geography.
Nicolas Palominos PhD
Nicolas is an architect by background and is currently completing a PhD at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, at UCL. Nicolas has multidisciplinary expertise in the design of urban data platforms for research and public participation. He created a country-wide platform to register and monitor investment in public works in Chile. As part of his PhD he has developed scalable street-analytical methods that can support the understanding of the complexity of the built environment at a fine-grain detail. He also has researched Urban Manufacturing for the Bartlett School of Planning.
