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February 21, 2022

The Importance of Markets

Following the AoU’s successful markets event on 27th January one of its co-organisers Anwar Akhtar describes how his time as a youth, working on market..
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February 21, 2022

ARTplace: School Party at the Burrell

In the first of a new series, artists talk about the inspiration for a particular drawing. This week the architect Professor Alan Dunlop talks about..
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February 21, 2022

Inside my head

Chris Lethbridge: Artist I work in arts and creative industry development and management. I’m also a somewhat sporadic artist based in St Just-in-Penwith, West Cornwall,..
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February 21, 2022

REVIEW: The Levelling up White Paper

Much of the coverage of the Levelling Up White paper has focussed on the 12 missions. If anything the 300 page supporting document has been..
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February 21, 2022

New York City

Satpal Kaur: Design Activist I come from a generation of builders who travelled from pre-partition India to Kenya under British colonial rule and finally arrived..
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February 21, 2022

Sounding-Off: Planning Top Trumps

“In the Netherlands, planning is seen as part of the solution, in the UK, planning is seen as part of the problem” The quote from..
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February 21, 2022

Message From the Chair

AoU Chair Andrew Burrell reviews the last few months and provides belated new years greetings I trust you all had a good Festive Season, despite..
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December 23, 2021

The Future of Retail in London

As we struggle through another COVID Christmas, Kathryn Firth asks why shopping is such a divided activity.  Visitors to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in..
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December 23, 2021

The Farrell Centre, Newcastle.

Sir Terry Farrell – Architect and urbanist I grew up in a prefab on a housing estate to the north of Newcastle, the edge of..
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December 23, 2021

The Greatest Street?

Create Streets recently tweeted a picture of Grey Street in Newcastle asking whether this was still Britain’s best street. Inevitably it triggered a twitter debate..
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December 23, 2021

Old Oak Common

Shevaughn Rieck – Architect I have been at Farrells London since my placement as a Part I at Newcastle University. 15 years later, I am still..
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December 23, 2021

REVIEW: Wilding: The Return to Nature of a British Farm by Isabella Tree

This book may not be very urban but as Nicholas Falk suggests it has much in it to inform and inspire urbanists. Most urbanists want..
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December 23, 2021

The Llŷn Peninsula, Wales

Hélène Rudlin – Garden Designer I spent my formative years in the Perigord Noir and I think the hiraeth I felt, during the intervening years..
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December 23, 2021

Remembering Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers, who passed away last week, was one of the founding members of The Academy of Urbanism. Although if we are honest, he was..
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December 23, 2021

The South Bank London

Robert Huxford – Director, Urban Design Group Before the SARS II Coronavirus Pandemic put an end to them, after evening meetings in London’s Smithfields, I..
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