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Tag Archives: regeneration
InspiralLondon Festival: re-imagining the built environment #1
This post kicks of a short series about InspiralLondon. This is an urban trail developed and led by artists, spiraling out from Kings Cross and ends at Gravesend, it enables the public to experience the city as one vast art … Continue reading
Tagged Art, London, Metropolitan, Performance, Planning, regeneration, Trail, Urban, Urban Walking, Urbanism, Walking
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The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: On Love
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
The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: Money
I attended 3 out of 4 of the 4×4 series of discussions in Manchester in May of this year. The series is about promoting real debate about cities, bringing speakers from a range of built environment related backgrounds together. This year … Continue reading
Musings and reflections on Leeds city centre – housing, consumerism and ‘narrowing the gap’ #2
In my last post, I made the connection between my 2011 collaborative drawing project Dwelling: a visual gazetteer, which included my own drawing of Skyline Apartments on Duke Street, and the new Victoria Gate shopping centre on Eastgate/Duke Street, sited … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Artists, city, Culture, Drawing, Housing, Leeds, Planning, regeneration, TCPA, Urban development
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Musings and reflections on Leeds city centre – housing, consumerism and ‘narrowing the gap’ #1
One of the reasons for writing this blog is to help me make connections between the apparently disparate aspects of my practice, so I can reflect them and develop new ideas and approaches to my work. This space for reflection … Continue reading
Tagged city, Consumerism, Leeds, regeneration, Shopping, Urban development
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Alternative perspectives of Manchester along a short stretch of Rochdale Canal #2
Further images from a walk along Rochdale Canal taken a couple of weeks ago (see previous post). Image credits: Sarah Spanton
Tagged Art, Canal, city, Cityscape, Culture, Manchester, Photography, regeneration, Urban, Urban development, Urbanism
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Alternative perspectives of Manchester along a short stretch of Rochdale Canal #1
As part of a student module investigating the pricing of land for development in Manchester, I’ve been exploring canal-side development opportunities, particularly on the Ashton Canal. To get more of a feel for the urban perspective from the canals in … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Canal, city, Cityscape, Culture, Manchester, Photography, regeneration, Urban, Urban development, Urbanism
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Visiting Liverpool Dock area: presentation on regeneration initiatives Nov 2014
As part of the MSC I’m undertaking in Urban Regeneration and Development, which began in September this year at the University of Manchester, we recently went on a fieldtrip to the Liverpool’s Dock area. Phd student Angela Nielson led us … Continue reading
Tagged Art, city, Culture, Dock, Liverpool, Photography, regeneration, Urban, Urban development, Waterfront
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Generous responses to researching Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes in Leeds
At the Urban Food Justice launch event Andre Viljoen presented his research on CPULS Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes – the need to develop sustainable urban food production within the boundaries and the edges of cities. He cited case studies from … Continue reading
Waymarking The Sketchbook 