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 […]
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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
To a More Ambitious Place: Do the right people have power in place? Think piece #2
By Christopher Rowe I define power as the ability to mobilise resources to meet our needs. Since 2008 I have […]
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Posted on Nov 12, 2014
Does practice make perfect in place? Glasgow debate round up
“Places are what happen when you’re busy doing other things,” Pauline Gallacher told us at our Debate in Glasgow titled […]
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Posted on Oct 6, 2014
To a More Ambitious Place Think Piece Series: Does practice make perfect in place? #2
By Marion Preez and Liane Bauer, UrbanPioneers Bring a chair, table and cake Imagine yourself in Switzerland. The land famous […]
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Posted on Sep 24, 2014
To a More Ambitious Place Think Piece Series: Does practice make perfect in place? #1
By Diarmaid Lawlor There is no perfect place. There are only places. And each place is a map of the […]
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Posted on Sep 17, 2014
Place Potential Think Piece Series: Can housing be a catalyst for great places? #3
By Emily Read ‘We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.’ Jane Jacobs As we know, […]
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Posted on Mar 10, 2014
Place Potential Think Piece Series: Can housing be a catalyst for great places? #2
By Leslie Barson and Lani Parker Can housing be a catalyst for great places? Let’s start by looking closely at […]
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Posted on Mar 7, 2014
Place Potential Think Piece Series: Can housing be a catalyst for great places? #1
By Grosvenor As well as enduring the slowest economic recovery in more than 100 years, Britain is suffering from a […]
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Posted on Mar 5, 2014
Place Potential: Can young people be placemakers?
The second debate of our 2013/14 Debate Series, Place Potential, on Wednesday 20th November continued this year’s exploration by asking, […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Nov 27, 2013