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Mayor of Hackney: 'Don't assume that everyone thinks like you'

Mayor of Hackney: 'Don't assume that everyone thinks like you'

Philip Glanville explains why people who believe in active travel shouldn’t assume that the lockdown has created a new consensus for sustainable transport. It still needs to be fought for. Interview by Christine Murray
England’s sites stayed open during lockdown and hundreds of construction workers died

England’s sites stayed open during lockdown and hundreds of construction workers died

During the peak, construction sites in England kept going while senior management stayed home. Now, men in construction have the highest COVID-19 death rate, according to the ONS. Who will be held accountable? Christine Murray reports
Mayor of Hackney: 'Don't assume that everyone thinks like you'

Mayor of Hackney: 'Don't assume that everyone thinks like you'

Philip Glanville explains why people who believe in active travel shouldn’t assume that the lockdown has created a new consensus for sustainable transport. It still needs to be fought for. Interview by Christine Murray
Can art connect us to places and bring communities together?

Can art connect us to places and bring communities together?

Artist Morag Myerscough will be speaking on 4 June about community engagement through art as the next speaker for Festival of Place Bytesize in association with U+I Think
“Newts and bats are deemed more worthy than children in planning”

“Newts and bats are deemed more worthy than children in planning”

Urban planning has its roots in creating better places for children and families, but traffic growth has created a mortal threat and reinforced sedentary lifestyles, writes Tim Gill
Tim Gill: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities

Tim Gill: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities

Watch this talk by Tim Gill, author and independent researcher on childhood play, will discuss how the shift to car-centric planning has reinforced indoor, sedentary lifestyles at Festival of Place Bytesize
“It is only in times of scarcity that we remember what food really is”

“It is only in times of scarcity that we remember what food really is”

Letters from Lockdown: Food is life – if we treat it as cheap, we cheapen life itself, writes Carolyn Steel
“It has depressed the use of shopping centres and given new vigour to small high street shops”

“It has depressed the use of shopping centres and given new vigour to small high street shops”

Letters from Lockdown: The impact which seems to me most important and incalculable is the domestication of the office, writes Joseph Rykwert
Can art connect us to places and bring communities together?

Can art connect us to places and bring communities together?

Artist Morag Myerscough will be speaking on 4 June about community engagement through art as the next speaker for Festival of Place Bytesize in association with U+I Think

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Mayor of Hackney: 'Don't assume that everyone thinks like you'

Mayor of Hackney: 'Don't assume that everyone thinks like you'

Philip Glanville explains why people who believe in active travel shouldn’t assume that the ...
“Re-engineer from first principles: what and how you build”

“Re-engineer from first principles: what and how you build”

Citu has gone from straight-up developer to bringing the whole design and manufacturing process in-...
Glasgow: a tale of two cities

Glasgow: a tale of two cities

With intense pockets of deprivation cheek-by-jowl with overheated housing markets, Kevin Rush, ...
Proactive landscapes: Can urban design clean air and water?

Proactive landscapes: Can urban design clean air and water?

We need to make urban landscapes work harder, says Kevin Barton, who is making playgrounds that ...
Selling with nature: Why the Berkeley Group committed to biodiversity net gain

Selling with nature: Why the Berkeley Group committed to biodiversity net gain

In this podcast, Louise Clarke, head of sustainable places at the Berkeley Group, explains how ...
Made in Dagenham: the Ford-less future of £1bn Beam Park

Made in Dagenham: the Ford-less future of £1bn Beam Park

You might think a brownfield site makes for a smooth development run, but Beam Park proves there’s ...
Flooding in Leeds: Martin Farrington on the moveable weir

Flooding in Leeds: Martin Farrington on the moveable weir

How did Leeds tackle a flood risk and create public space at the same time? Martin Farrington, D...
De Urbanisten: From drain to sponge city

De Urbanisten: From drain to sponge city

New Podcast: We need to ‘depave’ our cities street by street, says De Urbanisten’s Dirk van Peijpe, ...
“It will be our homes that are flooded”

“It will be our homes that are flooded”

Insurers, investors and developers agree that resilience needs to be at the forefront of our ...

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Places for girls

Places for girls

With 80% of public spaces taken over by boys, how do we create spaces for girls? In this film, ...
Marmalade Lane

Marmalade Lane

In this film, the designers, developers and residents reflect on the development of Marmalade Lane ...
Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

This 360 film documents the making of Granby’s Winter Garden accompanied by the voices of Four S...
Placetest Gillett Square

Placetest Gillett Square

This "almost historic" regeneration project stands at a crossroad. Will its unique culture be lost?
London Made

London Made

A film by We Made That on the threat to industrial spaces that serve London

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England’s sites stayed open during lockdown and hundreds of construction workers died

England’s sites stayed open during lockdown and hundreds of construction workers died

During the peak, construction sites in England kept going while senior management stayed home. Now, men in construction have the highest COVID-19 death rate, according to the ONS. Who will be held accountable? Christine Murray reports
Industry shame: why are England’s construction sites still open?

Industry shame: why are England’s construction sites still open?

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, construction sites in England are still open and putting workers at risk. Is this a case of putting profit over people?
“Shopping centres are abandoned and must be demolished”

“Shopping centres are abandoned and must be demolished”

Letters from Lockdown: Not more than three months ago, the words ‘co-working’ and ‘co-housing’ recurred almost epidemically, can we say the same today? writes architect Cino Zucchi
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