Extracting Placemaking Tools from Minamisanriku

By Martha Isaacs After The Glass-House Chief Executive Sophia de Sousa returned from her research trip to the seaside town […]

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Posted on Jul 2, 2015

Bollards and Breweries: Learning with the Shad Thames Area Management Partnership

By Martha Isaacs Since my arrival as an Intern at The Glass-House Community Led Design, I have heard the term […]

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Posted on Jun 24, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: Do we accept the status quo in place? Think piece #3

By Alexei Schwab The pressure is on for London to build more homes, and we are seeing a raft of […]

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Posted on Mar 16, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: Do we accept the status quo in place? Think piece #2

By Sir Tom Shebbeare An amateur planner: asset or a hazard? Challenging the status quo by using the tool of […]

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Posted on Mar 16, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: Do we accept the status quo in place? Think piece #1

By Samar Héchaimé The question put forth is ‘Do we accept the status quo in place?’ My question is what […]

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Posted on Mar 13, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: Is our view of place too short-sighted? Think piece #1

By Katy Hawkins Today we continue to see a trend of one mega structure replaced by another; we go from […]

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Posted on Feb 6, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: Is our view of place too short-sighted? Think piece #2

By Cleo Newcombe-Jones If places are designed to be both people-centric and environmentally resilient it’s difficult to be too short-sighted. […]

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Posted on Feb 6, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: Do the right people have power in place? Think piece #2

By Christopher Rowe I define power as the ability to mobilise resources to meet our needs. Since 2008 I have […]

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Posted on Nov 12, 2014

To a More Ambitious Place: Do the right people have power in place? Think piece #1

By Robert Johnson Do the right people have power in place? Who has the power to transform place? As a […]

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Posted on Nov 3, 2014

To a More Ambitious Place Think Piece Series: Does practice make perfect in place? #3

By Sandra Macaskill and Yasmin Ali People are instrumental to the effective use of places and space. Bridgend Inspiring Growth […]

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Posted on Sep 30, 2014