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PLACES

"There's a real outdoor community. Everyone joins up and plays"

"White Flats" is a powerful short film on how the design of a housing estate can create community and encourage independence and child’s play

"The cough develops again and its grown" – The impact of air pollution

In a film commissioned by TRUUD, Shakar and his family explain the impact of traffic noise and pollution on the health and wellbeing of their families

"I feel stressed in this house" – The impact of damp

In a film commissioned by TRUUD, Kadra and Wendy explain the impact of damp on the health and wellbeing of their families

"I fell asleep at school" – The impact of overcrowding

In a film commissioned by TRUUD, Samuel explains the impact of overcrowding on the health of his two young sons

Fabrications: Using knitted artworks to challenge developer narratives

Artist Sam Meech chronicles the displacement and erasure of South Asian textile workers at Crusader Mill and shares the knitted artworks created in response

My Place Finsbury Park

A film about My Place, which employs local young people (aged 13-18) to be trained as researchers, advocates and leaders for the diverse communities they represent

These Are Homes: The flats produced through Permitted Development Rights

Photographer Rob Clayton exposes the living conditions in PDR homes as part of the TCPA’s Healthy Homes campaign, which has tabled the Healthy Homes principles as amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill

Caregivers and young children rarely consulted in community engagement despite representing a third of the population Sponsored by Van Leer Foundation

Gender and climate change: How addressing gender equality could help tackle the climate emergency Sponsored by WSP

Building bridges to biodiversity Sponsored by Muse

The Muse Way: How partnership working breathed new life into Lewisham GatewaySponsored feature

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placetests

Placetest: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Anthropologist Caroline Bennett speaks to locals with photography by John Sturrock

Placetest: New Poundbury

Its Royal patron makes Poundbury the focus of much attention, and the development is not even ...

Placetest: Nine Elms

What is the experience of this nascent place and its people? Anthropologist Caroline Bennett visits ...

Placetest: Liverpool One

In this exclusive placetest, anthropologist Rebecca Toop explores the user experience of L...

Placetest: King's Crescent Estate

Placetest King’s Crescent Estate: A part-demolished estate in Stoke Newington is enjoying an ...

Placetest: MediaCityUK

Placetest MediaCityUK: What is it like to live and work in Peel’s MediaCityUK and has it brought ...

Placetest: King’s Cross

Placetest King’s Cross: How does it work, who is there – and who isn’t? How does the masterplan ...

fresh thinking

Lockwood Way: Transforming an industrial estate

A short documentary explores the impact of We Made That’s modest interventions to an industrial estate on Blackhorse Lane in Walthamstow to make it a more appealing place to work and visit. Film by Jim Stephenson

High Hopes: Voices from the streets of Lewisham

Lewisham resident Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz presents a documentary film in the tape/slide tradition, photographed and recorded in October 2021

Harlow homes: How PDR destroys local communities and builds Britain's worst housing

Permitted Development Rights allow developers to bypass community consultation and planning standards to build homes. This film by Simon Mercer visits Harlow where 51% of new homes were office conversions under PDR in 2018/2019

Places for girls

With 80% of public spaces taken over by boys, how do we create spaces for girls? In this film, young women at a Hackney secondary school reveal what they need from their city

Marmalade Lane

In this film, the designers, developers and residents reflect on the development of Marmalade Lane in Cambridge, the UK’s largest cohousing project

Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

This 360 film documents the making of Granby’s Winter Garden accompanied by the voices of Four Streets

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Are You?	LDA Design	Studio Egret West
BDP	LocatED	Sustrans
Broadway Malyan	Morris+Company	Tibbalds
Buro Happold	Muse	Urban&Civic
BWB Consulting	National Trust	Vestre
Cadogan	nghomes	West Northamptonshire Council
Civic Engineers	Notting Hill Genesis	Whittam Cox Architects
Commonplace	Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
EPR Architects	Places for London
Essex County Council	Poplar HARCA
Fathom Architects	Quintain
Farrow Walsh	Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Furnitubes	Related Argent
Griffiths & Armour	Ryder Architecture
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