February 18, 2011 – 10:43 am
At the end of 2010, the Commonwealth Association of Planners produced a scoping study of ‘the state of the cities across its member states’ entitled Urban Challenges: Scoping the State of the Commonwealth’s Cities. The new report, with which I was involved in the early stages, draws together existing data for the Commonwealth to demonstrate [...]
October 24, 2010 – 7:00 pm
When looking into the ‘This is not a Gateway Festival’ (TINAG) home page, in a somewhat confuse profusion of points, I found ‘hidden’ in the 10th line of topics an interesting analysis of some ‘keys to the city’… such important ‘keys’ shouldn’t be so secret.
One of the things that they illustrate (as shown above) is [...]
December 14, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Sent by Diego Garcia Mejuto:
This month a new initiative was launched at the Bartlett School of Planning. The ‘Lonely Planner’ series consist of informal talks given by Bartlett Planning PhD students on places they are very familiar with, followed by questions and discussion. The aim of these talks is to learn and discuss about certain [...]
October 29, 2009 – 6:17 pm
The week I spent in Vienna last September was warm and brilliant. One day I was having lunch outdoors at the Kunsthalle on Karlsplatz, a coffeeshop and exhibition space carved in a piece of no planner’s land in the very centre of Vienna, where once the medieval walls stood and I was attracted by the [...]
October 6, 2009 – 11:55 pm
[REMEMBERANCE OF SMELLS PAST. A BBC World Service programme]
“How do smells impact on memories and emotions? Science is unraveling how a whiff of perfume or a newly mown lawn can offer us a free ticket back to our childhood.”
[SOUND ARCHITECTURE, A BBC World Service programme]
“Professor Trevor Cox, science broadcaster and acoustic engineer explores the idea of aural architecture – architecture for your ears.
Now, through new technology and a new way of thinking, acousticians and architects are working together to create spaces that both function better but also look good too.”
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