A recent trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles and several smaller towns in between made me think about the differences between American cities and cities in Europe. As an urban designer and landscape architect, what are the benefits of comparison and does it provide any lessons for great place-making?
On a recent trip to Bucharest – a must for anyone interested in architecture or history – I was lucky enough to be given a guided tour of the decaying and often abandoned eighteenth and nineteenth century network of neighbourhoods tucked away immediately behind the vast and grand post-war communist boulevards and avenues that form the main public realm.
Node, together with bid partners CBRE and SYSTRA has successfully won a competitive tender for a city centre masterplan for the historic city of Worcester.
Reflecting on the role of intensification activities in sustaining urban vitality. Walking through the A38 underpass during the Birmingham Weekender Festival, I was reminded of the social value of simple public space interventions.
