Social Life is a social enterprise, created by the Young Foundation in 2012, to become a specialist centre of research and innovation about the social life of communities. Social Life builds on the ground-breaking work of two leading social thinkers: Michael Young, sociologist and social entrepreneur who established the Institute of Community Studies in 1954 to bring social research to post-war urban planning; and Professor Sir Peter Hall, one of the world's most respected and widely-published thinkers about urban planning and former Senior Research Fellow at the Young Foundation.
Social Life believes that creating places that support local people, which are socially sustainable, matters as much as creating places that are economically and environmentally sustainable.
