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Theme : cities
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The street where happiness is three bedrooms, a steady job - and a shed
There is still a corner of suburbia where people just mow their lawns and don't get divorced.
from : samhintonsmith
21st July 2006
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The Observer | Business | Empires bid to strike back in stores war
Big versus little retail in the the planning system.
from : petebradwell
17th July 2006
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Welcome to Planning Summer School
A lot of interesting and insightful papers on all manner of planning issues.
from : petebradwell
14th July 2006
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Neighbourhoods: Formal and informal in public space
"Like a lot of people I dislike barriers and traffic lights both as a pedestrian and as a driver, because they seem like a mutually-inconvenient and extreme solution to different forms of movement because we cannot find a functional compromise.
One reason motorist and pedestrian often haven't found a compromise is because official systems need to be able to apportion blame if things go wrong and therefore need to rule out ambiguity."
from : petebradwell
14th July 2006
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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
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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
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BLDG BLOG
Architectural conjecture; urban speculation; landscape futures.
from : petebradwell
28th June 2006
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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
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A question of law and orders on our streets
from : alistairdavidson
8th June 2006
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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
