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April 4, 2022

Caledonian Road, London

Angela Brady OBE: PPRIBA, Architect and Design Champion. For years we wanted to build our own office, or create it as part of a development..
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April 4, 2022

Venice, Italy

Steffen Lehmann: Urbanist My choice of place had to be Venice! The Italian city is simply too unique and memorable not to rank at the..
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April 4, 2022

Almanzora Spain

Rob Ramwell: Former Estate Management Officer Hulme in Manchester holds a very special place in my heart. I moved into the (usually preceded by infamous..
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April 4, 2022

Aultbea on Loch Ewe

Willie Watt: PPRIAS, Architect This is one of those places up near the North Coast 500, which folk have no doubt been longing to visit for..
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April 4, 2022

Jodhpur, India

Shruti Hemani: Urban Designer & Illustrator This illustration was made for the book “Are your emotions like mine?” published by Adidev Press. It is part..
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April 4, 2022

No Place Left Behind

James Gross talks to Toby Lloyd, Chair of the Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking on the publication of their findings in the Create Streets..
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April 1, 2022

Can you survive in the city without your smartphone?

As part of the YU Small grant scheme 2021, Cécile Poullain and Pauline Niesseron have explored how smartphones influence our ability to perceive our urban..
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February 21, 2022

No more Levelling Down

As the government launches its Levelling Up white paper, John Montgomery argues that many towns and cities struggle to sustain meaningful work and prosperity and..
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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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