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
The Secret History of Our Streets
Over June and July the BBC aired ‘The Secret History of Our Streets’ series that was co-produced with the Open […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Jul 26, 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
Lots to learn from Neighbourhoods Study Tour in Sheffield
South Owlerton in Sheffield made a fantastic case study for us to visit on a Study Tour we ran as […]
Hannah Gibbs
Posted on Mar 1, 2012
Exploring the Neighbourhoods of Stroud and Bristol
Last Thursday we led a group of local community members and support workers on a Neighbourhoods Study Tour around Stroud […]
Hannah Gibbs
Posted on Nov 28, 2011
Glass-House Neighbourhoods Study Tour in London
Last Wednesday, for the first of our Study Tours under the new Building Community Consortium programme, we took 6 groups […]
Guest Author
Posted on Oct 3, 2011
A+DS & CLES event, 28 June 2011 Manchester
Hannah and I were invited to take part in an event arranged and run jointly by Architecture+Design Scotland (A+DS) and Centre for […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Jul 6, 2011