Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in digital identity, technology and the ways that information and knowledge is shared...
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- My Back Yard is Your Back Yard Peter Pan - sorry, Ruth Kelly, in her new role as Secretary of State for Communities, said yesterday that she wanted to ?root out? the social culture that sees people being ?protective of their own space?.I can?t help but wonder if this is a curious attitude for someone with responsibility for communities. It certainly sits a little uncomfortably with the tone of nearly every planning policy statement to emerge from the ODPM over the past couple of years. (And apparently her record in... from : petebradwell 12th May 2006
- Everyday Cartography Projects like OpenStreetMap and the related ?Mapchester? show how technology ? often GPS-based ? can be used by the public to map and draw out the hidden secrets of place. Time-lapse movies from Cabspotting and eCourier in particular sketch the curious arrhythmia of a cities heartbeat, while the Greenwich Emotion Map fused its results with Google Earth to create a compelling cartography of people?s experience of walking through South-East London.It seems that meaningful community-led efforts... from : petebradwell 23rd May 2006
- Where the rubber hits the grid-road We spent Wednesday and Thursday this week in Milton Keynes talking to planners and council members - the first of our case study visits. I had some initial thoughts I thought might be worth putting up.For the debutant visitor the grid-planned streets and wide, tree-lined pedestrian walkways lend ‘MK’ an LA-tinged other-worldliness. It was planned into existence, so inevitably it's fairly unique.Milton Keynes is indeed a special case from a planning perspective. But the challenges... from : petebradwell 23rd June 2006
- BLDG BLOG Architectural conjecture; urban speculation; landscape futures. from : petebradwell 28th June 2006
- I'm trying to sleep here... Cities are loud. My world cup experience has already been defined by eerie sonic mash-ups of John Motson, Sainsbury’s delivery trucks and screaming emergency response vehicles.But silence-lovers of London rejoice (Quietly). Artist Simon Elvins has sketched a beautiful ‘Silent London’ map, detailing the pockets of quiet that hide seductively amidst the capital’s cacophony.Should we expect droves of the sleep-deprived, mattresses and duvets in tow, to hold alternative... from : petebradwell 11th July 2006
- The Tube-ernet Is Getting Fuller A US senator recently made an amusing attempt to explain how the internet works - apparently as a set of big pipes that can, erm, get all clogged up with people's stuff and that. It reminds me of watching my parents trying to figure out how to programme the video recorder.More seriously, some are suggesting that we should jeopardise net ‘neutrality’ by creating a two-tier access framework, with privileged access for those heavy-users willing and able to pay extra. It seems there... from : petebradwell 13th July 2006
- Workshop and Narrative We've been developing our Future Planners story for a while now - a process that really began with the writing of the 'Production Values' chapter. And the most recent session was last week's workshop here at Demos (pictures in the Flickr feed on the right). Thanks to everyone that came and withstood the intense heat and brought real skill, experience and insight to a compelling day's work.With that workshop and through our initial thoughts from the interviews and case-studies, we have produced... from : petebradwell 24th July 2006
- DCLG / Gosplan Comparison Shock The re-emergence of Russian centralised planning caught my attention over the weekend. It doesn't, according to Deputy PM Vladimir Yakovlev, amount to a return to amusingly scientific output specifications for nails and screwdrivers, but rather a means to integrate cross-regional planning needs. Or, as Alexander Khloponin, Govenor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, suggested - 'We must adjust aims and tasks, and not supplies of nails and products...' from : petebradwell 31st July 2006