Exciting news from London’s City Hall: the city is taking seriously the goal of becoming more child-friendly.
via The London Plan is just the start | Child in the City — Rethinking Childhood
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This year’s garland at Cotehele House, Cornwall
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
This is the first of four posts telling the story of council housing in Walsall. Beyond any local interest, it reflects the dynamics of a wider national history of council housing. That fuller story will be told in my forthcoming book Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing which will be published by […]
via Council Housing in Walsall, Part I: Before 1914 and the Impact of War — Municipal Dreams
On my return journey to Scotland from our trip to the Cotswolds in September (see my write-ups on Snowshill and Hidcote), I stopped off at Levens Hall in Cumbria on the recommendation of my mother. Levens Hall has the oldest and most extensive topiary garden in the world, and since topiary is my spirit garden […]
There’s a place in the centre of Ottawa that just screams play to me. It’s like an invitation to make believe, to climb, jump, lounge and generally have fun. It’s not designated as a play space but does that really matter? There is a truly inside out aesthetic going on here with what is in […]
Growing awareness and evolving values are driving Government, businesses and individuals to demand greener, more affordable and socially acceptable energy technologies. As an essential part of both the challenge and the solution, it is up to all of us in the building services industries to forge a plan together and ensure we’re ready and fit…
via Key Drivers Forcing the Green Gateway Agenda — Specifier Review
Susan Georgiou, 61, has lived in Birmingham all her life and worked for the Department for Work and Pensions for the past 43 years. Now semi-retired, Susan finds plenty of time to indulge her passion for photography at Winterbourne. Prunus ‘Kanzan’, photograph by Susan Georgiou “I have always taken photographs but it was the digital…
via Snapshot: Susan Georgiou — Winterbourne House and Garden
One of my first great adventures was exploring England, nearly ten years ago. Very high on my England Travel wish-list was definitely the much speculated about Stonehenge. It is one of the mystical places where it seems nobody actually knows what it was used for or by whom it was built. It is surrounded in […]
via Stonehenge, Home of Magic, Druids and Pagan Rituals — Janaline’s world journey
Designing for Urban Childhoods takes the language and tools of progressive urban planning to argue that children should be central to shaping the future of cities around the world.
via New Arup report places children at the heart of urban planning — Rethinking Childhood
Old School Garden 