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Author Archives: Tim Stonor
HS2 – urban connectivity is key to maximising economic impact
This morning’s announcement by the UK government about the preferred route of the proposed ‘High Speed 2’ rail line north of Birmingham raises, quite rightly, the issue of economic impact and its geographic spread. Will the line draw commerce north, … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Economic, Future Cities, Planning, Spatial layout, Transportation, Urbanism
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Are streets the answer – yes, but…
Yesterday’s launch by think tank Policy Exchange of a report calling for the removal of inner-city high rise estates and their replacement with streets is a welcome contribution to discussions about the design of future cities. The report, authored by … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cities, Development, Economic, Future Cities, Health, Planning, Social, Space Syntax, Spatial layout, Urbanism
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Old Street – putting the genie back in the bottle?
Old Street Roundabout is a heady intersection of urban movement flows: on foot, on cycles and in vehicles, including the Tube. But it is currently a mess, out of place within the surrounding network of generally convivial streets. In order … Continue reading
Vince Cable visits Space Syntax
Yesterday, UK Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, visited the Space Syntax London studio. Here’s a summary of the visit on Storify.
Posted in Architecture, Economic, EPSRC, Future Cities, Performance, Press article, Space Syntax
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Smart Cities World Expo – speaking notes
Spatial layout influences Human behaviour: 1. Movement 2. Awareness 3. Interaction 4. Transaction. Spatial layout benefits 1. Economy - productivity - innovation – building & campus performance 2. Health – active travel – access to healthcare – building & campus performance 3. … Continue reading
UBM Future Cities
My piece in full
Posted in Cities, Digital phenomena, Future Cities, Health, Planning, Press article, Technology, Transportation, Urbanism
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Water works
From “Slate“ “The abstract-seeming images here are not the result of some wacky Photoshopping. Jay Mark Johnson’s photos are actually incredibly precise. The reason they look like this is because he uses a slit camera that emphasizes time over space. Whatever … Continue reading
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Going to “work” is actually going to “interact”
Why is people movement important in buildings? In a knowledge economy, the key role of buildings is the production and dissemination of new knowledge to drive innovation. Awareness leads to interaction leads to transaction. Spatial layout works with management style … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Buildings, Business, Design, Future Cities, Innovation, Spatial layout
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Planning to “plan” or planning to “process”?
There’s an argument for more deterministic planning – taking the guesswork out of it. Planning should create plans not just processes. We have clearly defined processes but uncertain physical and spatial plans. Too much is left to individual actors. More … Continue reading
Is density just a fashion?
“It is possible that density is a fashion.” Anon It is also possible that low density is a fashion. Indeed this would seem from the evidence to be a much greater possibility. Look at the urban record. The last hundred … Continue reading
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Parametric Thinking & Making on Architecture and Urbanism International Conference
Call for Abstracts It is hereby announced that the Parametric Thinking & Making on Architecture and Urbanism (PaTMAU) International Conference will be held at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, during 24-25 November 2012. Further information on this event will be … Continue reading
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Life by a thousand connections
Background The everyday actions of architects and urban planners influence the everyday physical activity of people by creating the networks of streets and public spaces through which people move. Similarly, inside buildings, the layout of space influences the degree to … Continue reading
Research into practice
At a conference where almost every speaker has been concerned about the delay of getting academic research into practice. One proposed solution is open access. No doubt there are other ideas. The problem is that the research-into-practice paradigm is wrong. … Continue reading
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Quality Streetscapes Conference notes
My slides This first part of this presentation introduces a new approach to valuing urban design – one which allows design decisions to be embedded in real estate valuation calculations. The approach connects design to the rateable value of retail, … Continue reading
Future Cities_Cities of Transaction
Thinking about the future of cities is not a new challenge. From Christopher Wren’s plan for the post-fire rebuilding of London in 1666 to Ebenezer Howards’s Garden City concept, to Le Corbusier, to Bladerunner, human ingenuity has been tasked with … Continue reading
Notes for AGI Conference talk: Measure, map, model, make
My slides Great placemaking is a process combining art and science. There is a place for both and indeed a need for both. Two problems. First, urban planning is largely an analogue discipline. Too many diagrams and watercolours. Not enough … Continue reading
Tim Stonor appointed Visiting Professor at the Bartlett, University College London
Press release from Space Syntax Limited Space Syntax director, Tim Stonor, has been appointed a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett, University College London. The award was made by UCL Provost, Prof Malcolm Grant. It is a title conferred upon distinguished … Continue reading
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#SSS8 tweetroll
Courtesy largely of Dr Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer, here is a #SSS8 hashtag tweetroll for the 8th International Space Syntax Symposium in Santiago de Chile… neuarchitects Ben Paul @Tim_Stonor new .net site looks great and #SSS8 sounds fascinating, plus Santiago sunshine too…it’s a win win. … Continue reading
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