(image coutesy of: divagacoesdeumleigo.blogspot.com) As we now enter the urban age the challenges of the city change, grwoing populations, increased CO2 emmsions and simply naviagting…
It’s common knowledge that trees and plants benefit our environment in terms of CO2 emissions but they can also provide added benefits to built up…
Solar panels have long been criticised as an expensive unviable energy source. But Blackfriars Bridge in London has had a solar facelift and is now…
This year’s Wolfson Economics Prize is inviting entrants to consider how they could deliver a new Garden City, which is visionary, economically viable, and popular. …
‘Would you favour schemes which maintain, improve, enhance and increase green space and waterways in and around Manchester?’ Ask most people in Manchester this question…
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…
by Darrell Wilson The idea of ‘greening the city’ has become synonymous with initiatives that increase and enhance the quality and content of nature and…
by Richard McDowell It could be said that one way of assessing a society’s degree of civilisation is the extent to which it invests in…
by Steve Merridew Our cities are our future. By 2030 60% of the world’s population will live in urban areas.(ref 1) Global economic growth and…
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…