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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]