Practical. Thinking.
To mark the first anniversary of the publication of the Portas Review, AMT and Urban Pollinators have brought together a range of collaborators to reflect on town centre progress and problems. High streets and town centres remain firmly on the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments’ agendas. It’s encouraging that so much local action is taking place and [...]
It isn’t often council planners are described as inspiring. Government ministers certainly don’t think so: the draft National Planning Policy Framework is designed to remove many of their current responsibilities. So why are Brighton’s planners inspiring? Brighton and Hove Council has just become the first in England to adopt planning advice to encourage food growing [...]
Walk into the Greenhouse and you wouldn’t imagine it was once a local eyesore. The former Shaftesbury House workers’ lodgings in Beeston Hill, south Leeds, is now a showpiece for sustainable living. It’s an example of what can be done with a building that could easily have been demolished and replaced with a boring development of [...]
It’s an unusual legacy but Jane’s Walk, which gets people out exploring the areas where they live and talking to their neighbours, would surely be welcomed by urbanist Jane Jacobs. Jane’s Walk celebrates the memory of Jacobs, who died in 2006. She had radical ideas about the best way to make cities work, believing they [...]
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