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Rain gardens: “It's not just an engineering solution. It's also landscape. It’s biodiversity”

Rain gardens: “It's not just an engineering solution. It's also landscape. It’s biodiversity”

If the street is going to be dug up, then you should get as many positives out of the disruption as you can, writes Kimberley France
Passivhaus social housing: “They don't have to choose between heating and eating”

Passivhaus social housing: “They don't have to choose between heating and eating”

The health and economic benefits of Passivhaus make it worth the increase in quality control and investment, experts say, while cost of building the standard has decreased significantly, writes Kimberley France
“It’s about feeling really good.” How social impact is being measured at Brent Cross Town

“It’s about feeling really good.” How social impact is being measured at Brent Cross Town

Brent Cross Town is using the Flourishing Index to demonstrate the cause and effect of placemaking on public health. Dr Jamie Anderson, Buro Happold’s urban wellbeing lead, explains the metrics and methodology
The Festival of Place 2023 launches with 2-for-1 offer

The Festival of Place 2023 launches with 2-for-1 offer

Fast forward to summer - Tickets are now on sale for Festival of Place 2023. Bringing you brilliant speakers, fresh and diverse voices, and the opportunity to get involved and learn. For a limited time only, buy one ticket and bring two attendees.
Leading with Nature

Leading with Nature

When it comes to masterplans and housing, some of the most successful projects are taking landscape as a starting point, not the green garnish at the end. Watch the recording of this Festival of Place talk 
Watch the talk on net zero and inclusivity with Alexandra Notay

Watch the talk on net zero and inclusivity with Alexandra Notay

Watch the recording of this free taster Festival of Place event with Alexandra Notay, Placemaking & Investment Director, PfP Capital, on investing in net zero and the changing shape of property and place, supported by PfP Capital and IE University School of Architecture and Design
“White middle-class man stands in front of public housing and bellows about how it doesn't work”

“White middle-class man stands in front of public housing and bellows about how it doesn't work”

Social housing and other Brutalist public spaces were cast as dangerous and antisocial by the media, says Owen Hatherley in this talk on how the style wars ultimately decimated the availability of quality affordable homes in England

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Placetest: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Placetest: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Anthropologist Caroline Bennett speaks to locals with photography by John Sturrock
Placetest: New Poundbury

Placetest: New Poundbury

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

Placetest: Nine Elms

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

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

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

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

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

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Winners of The Pineapples 2021 awards announced

Winners of The Pineapples 2021 awards announced

Soapworks, Television Centre, Cheney Row Park and more scoop golden pineapples at the virtual ceremony on Friday the 16 July, 2021 at the closing celebration for the Festival of Place
Watch the Bytesize talk with Nathalie de Vries: Shaping better places

Watch the Bytesize talk with Nathalie de Vries: Shaping better places

Festival of Place Bytesize presents architect and urbanist Nathalie de Vries, Founding Partner of MVRDV and City Architect of Groningen, run in association with IE Women Scholarship and the Global Masters in Real Estate programme
Chipperfield: "We have a train crash between the principles of good planning and a free market economy"

Chipperfield: "We have a train crash between the principles of good planning and a free market economy"

Watch the talk: Sir David Chipperfield sits down with Finn Williams, CEO, Public Practice and several local authority associates for a robust discussion on planning: "I don’t believe that developers per se are bad people... but instinctively they’re going to push"
Winners of The Pineapples 2020 awards announced

Winners of The Pineapples 2020 awards announced

King’s Cross, North Cator Park, Leeds Dock and more scoop golden pineapples at the virtual ceremony on Friday the 13 November, 2020 at the closing celebration for the Festival of Place
Radical Rethink #6: The Front Garden City

Radical Rethink #6: The Front Garden City

Zoë Berman and Roland Karthaus outline their proposal for how neighbours might come together to transform their front gardens into a public commons
Radical Rethink #5: Gross Social Value

Radical Rethink #5: Gross Social Value

Christopher Arthey puts forward his Radical Rethink to create a new simple appraisal tool that will calculate the value of a development on the basis of its social, cultural and environmental contribution

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The C word: Did no-one tell Labour that a “radical plan” to build loads of new homes is bad for the climate?

The C word: Did no-one tell Labour that a “radical plan” to build loads of new homes is bad for the climate?

Industry fears that in the push for growth in housing numbers, the government is turning a blind eye to carbon – and quality. James Wilmore reports
Mothers suffer from long commute but not fathers

Mothers suffer from long commute but not fathers

Study finds that marginal commuting cost is about the same for men and women before the birth of a child, but after the birth, it is substantially higher for women with a 12km increase in distance equivalent to 20 per cent in wages. Christine Murray reports
“The healthiest places have spontaneous play engrained in their public spaces”

“The healthiest places have spontaneous play engrained in their public spaces”

Inspired by one too many episodes of Race Across the World, Josh Dickerson takes a whirlwind tour of play spaces across Europe and finds open-ended, non-structured play spaces in lieu of fenced-off playgrounds
"There's a real outdoor community. Everyone joins up and plays"

"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
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund is “useful blueprint” to boost employment, study finds

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund is “useful blueprint” to boost employment, study finds

New Labour’s early 2000s investment in employment advice, training and support for self-employment resulted in a statistically significant increase in employment and decrease in out-of-work benefits claimants

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