It is a fascinating area but even though my job tangentially touchs on it I'm completely unable to keep up on the literature. I meant to read Cities for a Small Planet (which I see Steve has just mentioned) about five years ago.
I should have mentioned that there is another one tonight but I think all tickets have gone. Westminster Council are using them to promote My Idea, a scheme to get community buy-in to regeneration in the area.
I've moaned about it before but does anyone else find amazon.co.uk impossible to use these days?
It's this kind of stuff that makes me wish I actually had gone and studied to become an architect. When I was doing Design Communication* at A-level we visited the town council and they showed us regeneration plans for a street which, as a far as I know, is still a half-derelict traffic funnel to this day and I remember thinking how interesting coming up with that sort of thing looked as a job.
Perhaps it's not to late to cross train...
* In fact although I thought I was doing Design Communication I was actually doing Design Technology so was a bit stumped at the end of the second year when they asked me to make something.
On the same "spaces are important" subject Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers is worth reading if you haven't already. Also The City Seen as a Garden of Ideas by Peter Cook (not that Peter Cook) which is amazing but obviously the product of a madman.
the culture does not contain the tools to articulate what it wants or needs.
This is probably where art should fill the gap.
young people gather in shopping centres because they are the only safe spaces remaining for them
I'm annoyed that adults treat children and young people as if they were a blot on the landscape. There was a petition in our street to try and get as ASBO against the kids who hang out in the street. I wouldn't sign. Why shouldn't they be in the street just as much as me?
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It is a fascinating area but even though my job tangentially touchs on it I'm completely unable to keep up on the literature. I meant to read Cities for a Small Planet (which I see Steve has just mentioned) about five years ago.
I should have mentioned that there is another one tonight but I think all tickets have gone. Westminster Council are using them to promote My Idea, a scheme to get community buy-in to regeneration in the area.
I've moaned about it before but does anyone else find amazon.co.uk impossible to use these days?
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Perhaps it's not to late to cross train...
* In fact although I thought I was doing Design Communication I was actually doing Design Technology so was a bit stumped at the end of the second year when they asked me to make something.
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On the same "spaces are important" subject Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers is worth reading if you haven't already. Also The City Seen as a Garden of Ideas by Peter Cook (not that Peter Cook) which is amazing but obviously the product of a madman.
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the culture does not contain the tools to articulate what it wants or needs.
This is probably where art should fill the gap.
young people gather in shopping centres because they are the only safe spaces remaining for them
I'm annoyed that adults treat children and young people as if they were a blot on the landscape. There was a petition in our street to try and get as ASBO against the kids who hang out in the street. I wouldn't sign. Why shouldn't they be in the street just as much as me?
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