With so much of our lives still in pandemic-flux, it is perhaps reassuring to encounter any kind of ‘business as usual’. Our ‘New Londoners’ this issue, Roger Madelin and Emma Cariaga of British Land, oblige by building a ‘new town centre’ for the capital at Canada Water, which should provide some succour to readers seeking a vision of life after COVID.

FEATURES

Interview
Peter Murray talks to Ricky Burdett about the last 15 years of London development 

 Diversity is a fact; inclusion is an act
Benjamin O’Connor on diversity and how NLA intends to tackle it

Look back on lockdown
Sherin Aminossehe tells Peter Murray about her incredible daily drawings during the lockdown period

 London 3.0
Patricia Brown explains some of the thinking behind her idea for a ‘London 3.0’

New Londoners
British Land’s Roger Madelin and Emma Cariaga tell David Taylor about their plans to create a new town centre at Canada Water

 Building review
Art attack — Buckley Gray Yeoman’s Cromwell Place project in South Kensington gets the building review treatment

REGULARS

Need to know
The quarter — our summary of all the key news events this term

Viewpoint
We ask: what can we do to stimulate the high street?

Murray Mint
Peter Murray takes a alook at Sadiq Khan’s StreetSpace programme and plans to update the Highway Code

From the team
Nick McKeogh looks back over NLA’s lifetime so far, over the last 15 years, and forward to the next...

Opinion
Opinions this time from Stride Treglown, Gerald Eve and Miele

Columnist
Professor Yolande Barnes argues that ‘luxury’ housing does little if anything for London’s housing need

Coffee break
MiddleCap partner Tomáš Jurdák answers NLQ’s questions

My London
London & Partners’ Lucette Demets casts a fond eye over an area she loves — Spitalfields

PLUS...

Portfolio
Showing the way — London Festival of Architecture presents the Tooley Street Triangle

Best of the web
David Taylor spends ‘Five Minutes With...’ PLP’s Hala El Akl to hear about plans to make cities fair

In focus
Louise Rodgers reports on employment law and the pressures of returning to the office

NEW Expert Panel digest
Katrina Kostic Samen presents the first of a new series of expert panel reports, on workspace

Briefing notes
Our coverage of NLA’s Zoom webinars

Out of office
Chukka-tastic: Gensler’s Alicia Cecchini shows off her passion for polo

Market essay
Avison Young’s Martyn Saunders presents his ideas on what town centres should do to prosper after COVID-19