Visioning Sustainable Places during Green Sky Thinking week
As part of Open City’s ‘Green Sky Thinking’ week (15-19 April), we ran a breakfast workshop ‘People, Place and Value: Visioning Sustainable […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
New life in Fountainbridge
Earlier in November we supported a fantastic group who have come together to create a vision to breathe new life […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
Enabler Voices: ‘What value do local people bring to placemaking?’
By Richard Crutchley, Glass-House Enabler Google ‘Andover Estate’ and you’ll find a relentless list of negative outpourings about this sprawling […]
Guest Author
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
Build Your Neighbourhood: how people, place and value interact
“The essence of good places comes out in what we do.” – Meredith Evans, formerly Corporate Director, Telford and Wrekin […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
What would a sustainable city look like?
Green Sky Thinking Week held from 17-21 September was set up by Open City to highlight green expertise in the […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Sep 20, 2012
A crisis in housing and transport: what about placemaking?
Two news items caught my eye yesterday. One was the much commented on statement of Housing Minister Grant Shapps, that […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Aug 21, 2012
London Voices on Neighbourhood Planning
Last Saturday 23rd June London Civic Forum held an event in collaboration with Just Space bringing civic groups together to […]
Hannah Gibbs
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
Marple Wharf – revitalising the waterfront
Over the past few months we’ve supported the Marple Civic Society and Marple Vision Partnership to develop their plans to bring […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Jun 1, 2012
Training for Housing Association Design Review Panels
We were recently commissioned by First Wessex Housing Association in Southampton to deliver a two-day training course for members of […]
Hannah Gibbs
Posted on May 16, 2012
Neighbourhoods by Design: Designing change
Neighbourhoods by Design, one of our longest-running design training courses, has undergone a re-vamp of late. The Design Training course […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on May 10, 2012