Placemaking

01 October 2024

Architects Must Design for a New Age

For the first time in the history of our profession, architects are now outliving their buildings. How can we design with impact while keeping pace with today's rapid changes?

Placemaking

22 July 2024

The role of meanwhile projects in placemaking

Ruchi Chakravarty discusses the importance of meanwhile projects in London's placemaking, highlighting their ability to drive community engagement, as seen in the Public London publication.

Placemaking

16 July 2024

Revitalising Public London together

Lucy Musgrave, OBE, delivered a speech at the Public London exhibition, sharing her insights into what successful public realm activation and placemaking look like.

Placemaking

15 July 2024

Art to activate public spaces

Mark Williams, Deputy Chief Executive at HOLBA, highlights their Art of London initiative's success in revitalising West End’s as featured on the Public London Publication.

Placemaking

08 July 2024

Rewilding the city

Sophie Thompson, Director and Head of Public Realm at LDA Design, proposes rewilding cities to integrate nature, enhance public health, and solve environmental issues.

Placemaking

01 July 2024

Inclusive public spaces

Binki Taylor, founding partner of the Brixton Project, reflects on Brixton's approach to the importance of inclusive public spaces following the 2020 events.

Placemaking

21 November 2023

Greening the city: Hardworking Horticulture

Founder and CEO of Civic Engineers, Stephen O’Malley, shares some thoughts on the Greening the city: hardworking horticulture event - exploring strategies to creating buildings and places.

Placemaking

30 October 2023

Greening the City with Mount Anvil

Mount Anvil are thrilled to be working with housing associations and local authorities that share our long-term commitment to this work in estate regeneration.

Placemaking

17 July 2023

A new city: the women shaping public spaces

Bhakti Depala, Head of Planning Delivery for City of London reflects on our webinar exploring how women are shaping public spaces and influencing planning processes.

Placemaking

19 June 2023

BIDs: Bettering the City

It was evident that whether covering central or outer London locations, the BIDs share many common goals, Alexander Jan and Marcos Gold of Central District Alliance BID report.

Placemaking

22 April 2023

Public Realm Expert Panel

Hazel Rounding of shedkm reflects on the second gathering of the Public Realm Expert Panel, embracing the pillars of Collective Responsibility, Providing Clarity and Building Trust.

Placemaking

09 December 2022

Public Realm Expert Panel

Hazel Rounding, shedkm, reflects on the latest Public Realm Expert Panel meeting, exploring the ‘comfort’ of users through climate resilience, security and social justice.

Placemaking

31 October 2022

The landscape of innovation is changing

Emma Frost reflects on our recent report launch providing an update on a sector that is driving the evolution of innovation districts models.

Placemaking

21 March 2022

Dwelling in Public Realm should bring benefits for all

Hazel Rounding, Managing Director of shedkm and Chair of the NLA Expert Panel on Public Realm reports from the first meeting of the new panel.

Placemaking

09 July 2021

Women's safety in public spaces

Leonie Oliva writes for NLA in response to the recent webinar on women's safety

Placemaking

01 July 2021

City Women In The Spotlight: Safety First

Webinar hears calls for more male allies, charter sign-ups, better lighting and learning from other cities – plus bigger societal changes.

Placemaking

11 June 2021

Five Minutes with...Sarah Wigglesworth

David Taylor catches up with Sarah Wigglesworth to talk through her practice’s latest project – the Go Cycle hub and bridge scheme in Kingston upon Thames. Could this bit of city-making be replicated...

Placemaking

16 April 2021

‘As architects we need to embrace the water as a new public realm setting’

David Henderson, Director at Glenn Howells Architects, on why we need to embrace the water as a new public realm setting, in turn calling for a new type of architecture with sustainability at its core

Placemaking

01 April 2021

Colour and urban legibility

Colour is crucial to the legibility of an urban space. As colour experts, Axalta are keen to explore the role of colour – an integral element of architectural design – in placemaking.

Placemaking

22 October 2020

London needs ‘joined up’ vision, say Great Estates

The Great Estates are working hard to help retailers, restaurant and bar owners, cultural institutions and residents in their localities, improving public realm and enjoying good support from local au...

Placemaking

12 August 2020

Redesigning our public realm: we can’t forget about heritage value

Atkins Public Realm Design Director Peter Heath argues that in redesigning our public realm we need to be mindful of the heritage and cultural value of places alongside the functional role they play i...

Placemaking

23 July 2020

From the archive: LFA 2008

Temporary changes to our streetscape are scattered across the capital as a result of COVID19. These have the potential of leading to permanent improvements. The temporary has always been an important...

Placemaking

06 July 2020

Five minutes with…Max Farrell

Park life: David Taylor catches up with Max Farrell to find out about the Park Power initiative he’s backing, and life after Farrells with the London Collective – a cupboard of all the right ingredien...

Placemaking

12 June 2020

Creating Positive Space

Matt Bell, Corporate Affairs Director for Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, a trustee of Leap Confronting Conflict, and the chair of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair looks at how communities in London can...

Placemaking

07 May 2020

From the archive: Civilising Spaces - Improving London’s Public Realm

The importance of public realm has always been at the core of NLA thinking. In this 'From the archive' Peter Murray revisits the second exhibition we held in 2005, Civilising Spaces - Improving London...

Placemaking

17 April 2020

From the archive: The Great Estates

Over the years the NLA has focused on the Great Estates, their management, their placemaking skills and their long termism. A key issue, says Peter Murray, is the lessons that can be learnt from them...

Placemaking

15 February 2019

London set to get a charter for POPs

London is to get a charter to improve privately owned public spaces across the capital, but should also work on creating a logo to make such spaces, their owners and the rules t...