
Demanding Quality in our Public Realm by Sophia de Sousa
Today I was looking through photos on my phone and came across this image. I honestly can’t remember where I […]

Learning from community open spaces: Spaces by Design with Wandle Housing Association tenants and staff
Designing and managing public space is complex work, and often spaces are established or improved, only to find that after […]

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 […]

New life in Fountainbridge
Earlier in November we supported a fantastic group who have come together to create a vision to breathe new life […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]