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Placetest: MediaCityUK

Placetest: MediaCityUK

What is it like to live and work in Peel’s MediaCityUK and has it brought the promised benefits? Exclusive report by anthropologist Rebecca Toop with photography by John Sturrock
Placetest: MediaCityUK

Placetest: MediaCityUK

What is it like to live and work in Peel’s MediaCityUK and has it brought the promised benefits? Exclusive report by anthropologist Rebecca Toop with photography by John Sturrock
Meanwhile Prize winners announced

Meanwhile Prize winners announced

Six meanwhile projects have been selected as winners of the inaugural Meanwhile Prize, a new award for pop-up interventions that have made a positive contribution to place
Resilient New York: Greening the Big Apple

Resilient New York: Greening the Big Apple

Patricia Brown reports on how successive mayors have tried to make the Big Apple future-fit, leaner, greener and greater in a city that
is all about the deal
10 ways to improve the Thames

10 ways to improve the Thames

The River Thames is far from reaching its full potential, writes Lucy Musgrave. We need to increase engagement with under-used areas and inspire Londoners with its heritage
The miracle of Marmalade Lane

The miracle of Marmalade Lane

Cambridge’s cohousing project has established a resilient, intergenerational community. How did they do it – and can it be replicated? Laura Mark reports. Photography by David Christian
Live from nowhere: Making music in the margins

Live from nowhere: Making music in the margins

Emma Warren meets the handful of resourceful people in Liverpool, Bristol and London making space for music venues despite discouraging realities
If parks are the “lungs of the city” the UK has caught a nasty cough

If parks are the “lungs of the city” the UK has caught a nasty cough

James Wilmore reports on how councils are selling-off, privatising or scrimping on public space
It’s time to ditch the colonial language of ‘regeneration’

It’s time to ditch the colonial language of ‘regeneration’

We need to disrupt the very way we approach the design and development of our cities to rebuild public trust, writes Christine Murray

podcasts

Curating culture: How can we foster culture in the city, can it be created?

Curating culture: How can we foster culture in the city, can it be created?

Can culture be developed, or do we need to simply leave empty spaces for it to grow? An on-stage ...
Slinger: “Liverpool is a very well-kept secret”

Slinger: “Liverpool is a very well-kept secret”

Claire Slinger, assistant director for investment and development at Liverpool City Council, on how ...
Derrington: “Developers are demonised”

Derrington: “Developers are demonised”

Communities are protesting and funders are skittish, we need a better approach to urban development,...
What’s the future of downtown?

What’s the future of downtown?

Tim Tompkins, Rachel Fisher and Patricia Brown discuss approaches to reinvigorating our city ...
Anne Power: “Placemaking interventions have reinforced inequality”

Anne Power: “Placemaking interventions have reinforced inequality”

We need a more blended approach to creating mixed communities, says Anne Power, head of LSE Housing ...
Sir Stuart Lipton on the workplace: “If we are having fun, we feel better”

Sir Stuart Lipton on the workplace: “If we are having fun, we feel better”

Sir Stuart talks past, present, planning and future of offices, in conversation with Giles Barrie
Dan Labbad on developers: “You've got to be humble”

Dan Labbad on developers: “You've got to be humble”

Dan Labbad, chief executive of Lendlease Europe and future CEO of the Crown Estate, tells The D...
Demolition would have been “a complete waste of time, energy, money and carbon”

Demolition would have been “a complete waste of time, energy, money and carbon”

Christine Murray hears how Helical and AHMM transformed an unloved and badly managed British T...
Designing for the blind: what Countryside learned from the RNIB

Designing for the blind: what Countryside learned from the RNIB

An innovative partnership on green belt land between Countryside Properties and the Royal National I...

film

Marmalade Lane

Marmalade Lane

In this film, the designers, developers and residents reflect on the development of Marmalade Lane ...
Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

This 360 film documents the making of Granby’s Winter Garden accompanied by the voices of Four S...
Placetest Gillett Square

Placetest Gillett Square

This "almost historic" regeneration project stands at a crossroad. Will its unique culture be lost?
London Made

London Made

A film by We Made That on the threat to industrial spaces that serve London
Placetest: King's Cross Central

Placetest: King's Cross Central

A film about user experience and an intimate portrait of a young place

most popular

ULEZ is working: How London's Ultra Low Emission Zone is changing travel behaviours

ULEZ is working: How London's Ultra Low Emission Zone is changing travel behaviours

Early results show the Ultra Low Emission Zone is successfully shifting passengers back onto public transport and improving London’s air, Nicole Badstuber reports
People are leaving London due to air pollution: we are the problem

People are leaving London due to air pollution: we are the problem

As developers march in the Climate Strike and London has its biggest car-free day, Anna White reports on the pressing need for the development industry to clean up its act
“London will flood and when it happens, it will be dramatic”

“London will flood and when it happens, it will be dramatic”

A failure of the Thames Barrier is inevitable, the London Underground is already flooding, so is City Hall: Anna White reports on the challenges facing the capital
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