Category Archives: Landscape

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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The end of ages for transport planning and the birth of an era of transaction planning

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

There is so much interest, from so many different interests, in the future of urban living. This suggests that, whatever else, people suspect that things will change. I’m sure this is right – technology, resource scarcity, population growth, energy shortage … Continue reading →

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The pull of the park

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Gosforth Shopping Centre opened in 1979: an internalised world of covered shopping. The centre offered a pedestrian-only alternative to the busy traffic of Gosforth High Street, historically the retail backbone of the town. Although a few storefronts opened onto the … Continue reading →

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Exhibition – “Chile. Beyond landscape”

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

14th April-17th May 2011 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania Space Syntax Romania director Christian Beros has curated an exhibition of Chilean architecture. “In the past 20 years, Chilean architecture has earned a place on the covers of some … Continue reading →

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The pace of change – is “online” a reflection of “urban”?

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

One of the challenges in achieving an integration of thinking between hackers and urbanists is the rate of change online. Will the massive experimentation currently underway on the internet continue at a pace, or settle down as norms are established … Continue reading →

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From landscapes of extraction to creative industries of organic matter & waste

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

​​Monday, 14th February 2011 at 6pm Stubbins Room, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Participants Pablo Rey, Basurama Manolo Mansylla, Trashpatch Robin Nagle, anthropologist of material culture (waste) Scientist doing research in biomaterials (Wyss Institute … Continue reading →

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