I don't wish to sound like a sycophant, but I'd been waiting a while to hear renowned US architect-planner Andrés Duany in person. Watching him on youtube and reading about him in The Guardian is...

'We'd like a linear park. Not just any park, but a linear park.' That was our brief. A linear park? What sort of park is that? One that's stretched out in a long line? At the outset, I wasn't t...

The British planning system is designed to manage urban growth, investment and development. But how well does it perform when our towns and cities are faced with decline, population flight and de...

Last week I facilitated a seminar for the Royal Town Planning Institute in Glasgow to discuss these thorny issues. What follows is a summary of the presentations at the start of the evening. I foun...

Brasilitius: the clinical condition for civil servants living in Brasilia, who have work, home... and nothing else. 'A beautiful plan, but an abject human failure', to quote Professor James C Scott...

Have you noticed how many projects have built-in obsolescence? Public realm schemes are a good source of examples, where soon after the redesigned street layout has been built it becomes clear th...