Journal Archive
September 2006 Issue
Continuing Landscape's review of the regions, September's edition focuses on the north west of England. Should you wish to request a back issue please contact Malgosia Odell on 020 7299 4537. These are subject to availability. An online archive of our publications will become available over the coming months.
A question of place
Creating good urbanism is not a matter of connecting isolated sets of abstract theories or rules. It is about seeing the whole picture and rediscovering the art of building cities. It depends on recognising cities as complex, highly evolved and responsive environments. Their inevitable conflicts do not always need to be resolved: good urbanism is a matter of managing their interaction.” Re:Urbanism In the North West the debate about urban design is now crucial as the major cities restructure themselves and vast tracts of failing housing areas are remodelled. With their deep understanding of how cities and towns evolve, should ‘urban designers’ not be at the forefront of this renaissance if we are to avoid past mistakes? On the surface, it seems that ‘designers’ are brought in after the structural decisions have been taken and asked to design defined sites for defined products – applying sticking plasters to the planning system? Graham Marshall puts key questions to our panel All together now
For the past six years, Liverpool Vision’s Strategic Regeneration Framework has directed the unification of the city’s public realm. Here, Graham Marshall sets out the document’s ambition and explores some of its applications The third way
Melanie Johnston foresees a pivotal role for community and voluntary sector landscape architects in creating a public realm and gives meaning to the word citizenship 