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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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December 17, 2021

THE URBAN IDIOT: Radburn

So many times when visiting British cities you come across something that makes no sense at all. A piece of urban planning, architecture or traffic..
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November 29, 2021

Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India

Shruti Hemani, Urban Designer & Illustrator I qualified as an architect in India and trained as an urban designer at Nottingham University. I worked with..
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November 29, 2021

Villa Onala, Lagos, Nigeria

Tosin Oshinowo, Architect I was born in 1980 in Ibadan in Nigeria and spent part of my childhood in Lagos. It was happy and uneventful..
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November 29, 2021

Prince’s Exchange, Leeds

Simon Smithson, Architect I guess you could call me a Leeds lad as I was born at Jimmie’s, went to Leeds Grammar School, and did..
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November 29, 2021

LEGO Can Build a Northern Overground

A lot of people have been left disappointed by scaling back of HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail. But Ian Wray argues that, in the UK,..
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November 29, 2021

How has Covid-19 made us rethink our cities?

Pandemic lockdowns have changed the way that we view the city. Cécile Poullain argues that the time is right to rediscover the concept of ‘The..
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November 29, 2021

REVIEW: Common Good: Design and Sustainability in the North

On the 10 November, to coincide with COP26, a new group of northern urbanists held their first event; Design and Sustainability in the North. Vicky..
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