Category Archives: Design

Old Street – putting the genie back in the bottle?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

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 →

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Going to “work” is actually going to “interact”

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

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 →

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Urban Process Diagram

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

 

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Life by a thousand connections

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

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 →

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Goodbye spacesyntax.org hello spacesyntax.net

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

After a decade of earnest, if occasionally erratic, service the spacesytax.org website has been retired. Designed to serve the community of space syntax researchers, .org created the first place online that brought together the various strands of space syntax academic … Continue reading →

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AoU Landscape Urbanism notes & questions

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

These notes accompany a PowerPoint presentation Fragmented urbanism: the rise of Landscape Urbanism & the threat it poses to the continuously connected city TS intro This is a crucial moment for urbanism. In the UK, The Portas Review, highlighting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon emissions, Conference talk, Design, Development, Ecological Urbanism, Environmental, Landscape Urbanism, Loeb Fellowship, New Urbanism, Performance, Planning, Social, Space Syntax, Spatial modelling, Sustainability, Thought, Urbanism | 2 Comments

Talk, Stockholm: From the city to the bedside

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

White Tengbom Team AB Hälsingegatan 47 113 31 Stockholm Sweden 7th December 2012

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Approaching large scale urban design schemes

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

On Friday I gave a presentation at a Design Council CABE event, “Inside Design Review”. My talk, “Approaching large scale urban design schemes“, sets out a framework for thinking about the complexity of major urban development proposals.

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IBM Smart Cities, Helsinki – latest notes

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

9.50 Keynote What will the future city look like? The city of transaction How to plan a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable city The effects of the digital revolution on human behaviour patterns Tim Stonor, Architect & Urban Planner, Managing … Continue reading →

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IBM Smart Cities, Helsinki

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

19th October 2011 Tim Stonor “What will the future city look like?” View the presentation Themes to be addressed 1. How to plan a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable city. 2. Effects of the digital revolution on human behaviour patterns. … Continue reading →

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London’s riots – can architecture cause social malaise?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

My company, Space Syntax Limited, has released the first findings of a study into the 2011 London Riots. Described by Polly Curtis in The Guardian as “the most concrete evidence I think there is linking the summer’s riots to estates” … Continue reading →

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Roofing

Posted on September 17, 2011 by
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