City Dialogues

03 December 2024

NYLON: Reinvigorating Cities Through Active Public Spaces

Leif Lomo + Rutger Huiberts, Directors at KPF, reflect on the recent NYLON, which explored projects to revitalize Manhattan’s Fifth Ave. and London’s Knightsbridge, prioritizing pedestrians.

City Dialogues, Net Zero

04 October 2023

A collaborative circular economy

Join a UK-wide discussion, during the Design for Planet Festival, on collaboratively transitioning to a circular economy with targeted points of discussion

City Dialogues

25 November 2022

The centre v the suburbs

London and Los Angeles have more in common than previously thought, KAP Studio concluded at the latest City Dialogue event.

City Dialogues

25 October 2022

London and New York look to healthier streets

David Taylor reflects from NYLON – a live webinar hook-up between London and New focused on Healthy Streets as its topic.

City Dialogues

19 October 2022

Opportunity London Investment Summit

Jenna Goldberg, Partner and MD of Insight at LCA reflects on the first annual Opportunity London Investment Summit at The Royal Academy of Arts.

City Dialogues

10 October 2022

Opportunity London hits the party conference circuit

The Opportunity London campaign rolled into Liverpool and Birmingham as party conference season got into full swing – with a pair of well-attended dinners.

City Dialogues

23 September 2022

Cause & effect

How visioning the future of our cities helps democratize and improve the decisions we make about it, today.

City Dialogues, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

18 July 2022

Olympic cities: changing the perception of ‘Olympic architecture’

Kirsten Lees, Managing Partner of Grimshaw London and Paris studios, reflects on the impact the Paris Olympic Games will have on city and sports architecture.

City Dialogues

10 May 2022

Incubator space as an accelerator for innovation

Robert Gibbons of Bidwells reports from the NLA's latest UK City Dialogue, focused on incubation space.

City Dialogues

06 December 2021

Gendered landscapes under the microscope

Urban designers urged to create more subtle signalling of safe spaces and less ‘policed’ environments in bid for more ‘democratic’, equal environments

City Dialogues

31 August 2021

London Design Capital: Viewpoints

Four contributors to our most recent report, London Design Capital, which launched in July 2021, reflect on London's position on the world stage at this uncertain time.

City Dialogues

23 July 2021

London Design Capital – ‘let youth lead the way’

NLA launches London Design Capital report on the effects of COVID and Brexit – architects say capital must build on its strengths; young talent.

City Dialogues

11 June 2021

London and NY ‘optimistic’ on recovery

Webinar hears how post-pandemic cities and workplaces must embrace quality of life and flexibility

City Dialogues

26 April 2021

Chicago, London, and greener tall buildings

A live link-up between key players in Chicago and London shared lessons on the role and construction of tall buildings on both sides of the Atlantic

City Dialogues

27 November 2020

New York and London dig deep into resilience resources

London and New York will dig deep into their resources of resilience and may emerge with more adaptive reuse and a new generation of ‘roomier’, healthier buildings that are ‘more like a mitten than a...

City Dialogues

09 October 2020

London, Manchester and Birmingham city centres fight back

London, Manchester and Birmingham are fighting back to try and keep their city centres alive through a mixture of Covid-influenced measures that focus on improving the public realm and perception of p...

City Dialogues

24 July 2020

Learning from Europe… and beyond

The lessons London could learn from cities from across the world – and nearer to home – fuelled much of the discussion in two main webinars this week, with Unlocking Meridian Water looking to Germany...

City Dialogues

29 May 2020

‘Open streets’ and public realm could breathe life into retail

NYLON webinar hears from measures to resuscitate retail in New York and London, with open streets and public realm part of one solution for cities, digital innovation and collaboration another in a po...

City Dialogues

05 November 2019

Quality of place brings value – in London and New York

Developers in both London and New York are beginning to connect quality of place with value. But they must work harder to communicate that message if they are to rebuild trust with local communities a...

City Dialogues

16 September 2019

Sustainable, affordable homes - learning lessons from Sweden

What can London and Stockholm teach each other in terms of creating and delivering sustainable, affordable housing? A special – and sustainable – live link-up betwee...

City Dialogues

17 July 2019

Learning liveability lessons – London and Melbourne

London could learn from Melbourne’s transformation into one of the world’s most ‘liveable’ cities through ‘externalising’ buildings, taming the motor car and giving more streets...

City Dialogues

24 June 2019

Growth, tech and the citizen-centric city: NLA international symposium

NLA’s quest to help shape better cities reached out across the globe last week as it held its first International Symposium at London’s City Hall. And it was clear that housing...

City Dialogues

09 May 2019

Procurement and money hindering quality public housing

Getting good design quality into public housing is being hampered by two main problems in both London and New York – systems of procurement and a lack of money. That w...

City Dialogues

19 February 2019

Big data - driving change in London and Chicago

London and Chicago can learn a lot from each other on how to collect and disseminate data for the benefit of the cities and their citizens. But they must do so in an open and in...

City Dialogues

05 February 2019

Sustainable cities? Vancouver and London compare notes

Vancouver and London uncovered their sustainability credentials at the NLA last week – along with the challenges both face from their respective crises in affordability....