Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?

Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?

by Francis Glare, Manchester Studio Director  Sustainable place-making In Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’, the charred and apparently hopelessly denuded landscape is the setting…

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Why Urban Design?

Why Urban Design?

by Jaimie Ferguson, Urban Design Director We live in an Urbanising world. In less than 50 years more than twice as many people will live…

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Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool

Community and identity

 by Chris Harding The concept of community is as old as civilisation itself . More than a practical necessity , it is fundamental to our…

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Nanjing Road, Shanghai /BDP

It’s not what you buy, but the way that you buy it…

by Tessa O’Neill  The dynamic retail sector is going through its most significant period of transition in a century. The current global financial crisis is…

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Qingdao Westcoast Masterplan /BDP

Cities 2013

The mistake that architects made a century ago was to envisage the city of the future in terms of aesthetics. Such a view, is doomed…

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Shanxi Broadcast & TV Centre /BDP

More metro than macro – the economic potential of the city

Deyan Sudjic has likened the city to a forcefield, one in which mobility and ideas are the energy of the city flowing through the network…

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Zhengdong New District Transport Hub masterplan /BDP

Mega Cities – An Inescapable Opportunity

by FRANCIS GLARE Living in an urbanised world. In the 19th century, London was the only world city of more than five million people. Now…

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