Lessons from Minamisanriku: What does place mean to us?
Negotiating different personal and community associations with a building or place Minamisanriku is in many ways an idyllic setting, a […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 7, 2015
Lessons from Minamisanriku: Introduction
When I asked a survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Minamisanriku, Japan in June 2011 what we could […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 6, 2015
Do we accept the status quo in place? A round-up of our London debate
“We are both too ambitious and not ambitious enough” opened our first speaker, Alastair Donald on Wednesday at our fourth […]
Lucia das Neves
Posted on Mar 20, 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 […]
Guest Author
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 […]
Guest Author
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 […]
Guest Author
Posted on Mar 13, 2015
Urban governance: do current models support our ambitions for great places?
This blog post was first published on the Future of Cities blog run by Foresight Projects, part of the Government […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Feb 20, 2015
Is our view of place too short-sighted?
Is our view of place too short-sighted? On Wednesday 11 February, we put this question to an engaged Bristol audience, […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Feb 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 […]
Guest Author
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