Hot off the press: Next print edition of The Developer now on sale

The next issue of our limited edition, twice-yearly magazine has gone to print and it’s time to place your order – organisation members and Patreon supporters get it free. 

Inspiring, tactile and uncommonly beautiful, the print edition of The Developer features exclusive photography of Birmingham’s Paradise development by John Sturrock, including a stunning image of the Red Rebel Brigade on the uncoated cover with Pantone spot colour and a deboss of the Paradise masterplan and its surroundings. 

Featuring photography from around the world, the magazine offers an inspiring look at freshly unpacked and older places. This is a magazine for lovers of urban places and those who believe in the power of street photography to teach us about how life happens in the spaces between the buildings.

Inside, you’ll find a Placetest of Birmingham’s Paradise development by anthropologist Jon P Mitchell who speaks to locals about the shift from car to pedestrian traffic, and what it’s like living around a centre that has undergone construction for so long that change is the only constant. 

Editor-in-chief Christine Murray takes a trip to Toronto’s newly opened Biidaasige Park with her kids in tow, stress-testing the cycling infrastructure and the playgrounds in this mega-project where the mouth of a river has been moved to prevent flooding and unlock the redevelopment of housing on the previously contaminated port lands.

Fatma Gözde Köseolu takes a closer look at port regeneration projects from the past 30 years and how these vacant post-industrial sites reveal about who we’ve been reshaping cities for – with the built form increasingly responding to the capital and a narrowly defined citizen. 

Harriet Saddington digs into co-housing – with community-led processes and practices offering a welcome alternative to top-down approaches. Can co-housing go mainstream? Or will it remain a side-project for those with agency and money?

Offset lithography printed on a mix of coated and uncoated FSB paper stock with vegetable-based inks. Thank you to our members and Patreons for supporting our journalism. 

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