Tag Archives: Culture

Musings on Markets #4: How to find ways to solve issues of gentrification?

Posted on July 25, 2018 by waymarkingthesketchbook

Following directly on from my previous post on street food and artisan markets – this post considers their relationship to the traditional market. These new food halls and artisan markets aren’t delivering what the traditional market does. They are considered by … Continue reading →

| Tagged Community economic development, Culture, Lagos, Levenshulme, Local Economic Development, Manchester, markets, Portugal, Resillience, Social, Social Enterprise, Street food, TCPA, town centre development, towns, traditional markets, Urban, Urban development | Leave a comment

Musings on Markets #3: markets as destinations and social spaces

Posted on July 24, 2018 by waymarkingthesketchbook

Over the last few years a new trend in markets has been very popular; artisan, craft and street food markets have been springing up in cities and towns across the country and in Europe. These are seen by those managing … Continue reading →

| Tagged Altrincham, Copenhagen, Culture, Food, Mackie Mayor, Manchester, markets, Northern Quarter, regeneration, retail, Social, Street food, town centre development, towns, traditional market, Urban, Urban development, Urban regeneration | 1 Comment

Musings on markets #2: traditional markets, traders stories & opportunities to explore

Posted on June 29, 2018 by waymarkingthesketchbook

In Sara Gonzalez and Gloria Dawson’s report ‘Traditional Markets under threat – why it’s happening and what traders and customers can do’[1], which researches and reports on current issues for traditional markets. They define a traditional market as: ‘A traditional retail … Continue reading →

| Tagged Art, Bradford, Culture, markets, regeneration, retail, social justice, Socially Engaged, town centre development, towns, traditional markets, Urban, Urban development, Wur Bradford | Leave a comment

Levenshulme Close Up #1

Posted on September 28, 2017 by waymarkingthesketchbook

Having become a resident of Levenshulme recently, I’m going to undertake series of blog posts over the next year or so, that look at the neighbourhood in close-up, in detail, at textures, patterns and surfaces. I saw these collages on … Continue reading →

| Tagged Art, Cityscape, Culture, Levenshulme, Manchester, Photography, The City, Urban, Urban Walking, Walking | Leave a comment

InspiralLondon – re-imagining the built environment #3

Posted on March 30, 2017 by waymarkingthesketchbook

Several artists spoke at InspiralLondon’s Friday event, including Alberto Duman and Claire Qualmann. Artist Alberto Duman described his recent Leverhulme Trust Funded project ‘Music for Master planning’. It focusses on the area of Newham, London – which he described as … Continue reading →

| Tagged Art, Canning Town, city, CPUL, Culture, Foraging, London, Music, Newham, Stratford, Urban, Urban development, Urban Walking, Walking | 1 Comment

InspiralLondon re-imagining the built environment #2

Posted on March 28, 2017 by waymarkingthesketchbook

This second post unpacks some of Rebeka Clark’s presentation at InspiralLondon Festival in September 2016. Rebecca is the site manager of Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe, London, where the Friday events for the festival took place. The park has been … Continue reading →

| Tagged Art, city, CPUL, Culture, Docklands, Ecology, Environment, Green space, Housing, London, Park, regeneration, Rotherhithe, Urban, Urban development, Urban Growing | 2 Comments

The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: On Love

Posted on July 21, 2016 by waymarkingthesketchbook

The second of the 4×4 series of discussions in Manchester on 11.5.16 of this year had the theme of Love – asking how does love impact on our understanding of the built environment. Mick Timpson is an architect and yoga … Continue reading →

| Tagged Architecture, Art, Built environment, Community Development, Culture, cycling, Florence, Love, Manchester, Performance, placemaking, Planning, Public Realm, regeneration, The City, Urban, Urban development, York | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Culture

Levenshulme Close Up #1

InspiralLondon – re-imagining the built environment #3

InspiralLondon re-imagining the built environment #2

The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: On Love

Archives

Follow Blog via Email

C-C-Dwellers

Search The Sketchbook

Tags