Opinion
Fresh ideas for city life
Traditional structures of decision-making and power have left great swathes of the population disaffected and overlooked
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Essay
Modern Mosques
It’s time for a radical rethink of the design of the British mosque.
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Essay
Lonely cities
How can design help to solve the current social health crisis and make our fragmented communities more cohesive?
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Interview
Rules of engagement
Henrietta L Moore 7 Richard Sennett discuss the evolving relationship between culture, society and the city.
Essay
Towards a new social contract
Extinction Rebellion’s occupation and reappropriation of London’s streets, monuments and civic space reflected a widespread hunger to redraw the lines of engagement between citizens and state.
Interview
Tara Gbolade: Gbolade Design Studio
A new generation of practitioners are challenging our definitions of experts and expertise and calling for more diverse voices to be heard. Citizen talks to some of the innovators and entrepreneurs who are working across and beyond professional boundaries to improve city life.
Opinion
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Home truths
Is it better to build basic homes with potential than expensive finished products the market can’t afford?
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Making practice perfect
How does architectural practice need to adapt to benefit the modern city?
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Talking heads
The TED talks that offer the latest thinking on future-proofing the city
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Never Mind the Buzzword
Is inclusive growth is just a fashionable buzzword or can it balance equality and growth?
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Eyes on the prize
It’s time to stop being distracted by political divisions and prioritise the challenges posed by climate change.
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The way we live now
Imagining a future where London’s wealthiest enclaves are reclaimed by wild greenery and the dispossessed
Essay
Queer Freedom
A more fluid attitude to gay culture might yield more adventurous and experimental approaches to city-shaping and citizenship.
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Essay
Fast track to the future
The potential for green technologies and infrastructure to transform the way we travel, live and work
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Essay
About turn
Transforming the way affordable housing is procured, financed and built
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Opinion
Engage & deliver
Buildings initially derided for unorthodox design often defy controversy by engaging with people
Essay
Cities for an ageing population
By 2045 the proportion of the population aged over 65 will rise to 25%. This equates to 146 million more older adults than there are today – totalling 1.4bn globally. Insights from four diverse cities – Hong Kong, London, Madrid and Vancouver – explore the way cities are responding to this demographic shift.
Essay
Cities for an ageing population: Vancouver
By 2045 the proportion of the population aged over 65 will rise to 25%. This equates to 146 million more older adults than there are today – totalling 1.4bn globally. Insights from four diverse cities – Hong Kong, London, Madrid and Vancouver – explore the way cities are responding to this demographic shift.
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Folio
Homesteading in the City
A new urban model based on the production, consumption and celebration of fresh food.
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Folio
Floating Exchange Rates
An affordable, sustainable co-living model for the capital’s waterside sites.
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Folio
The Happy City
A neighbourhood strategy for creating meaningful connections between people through design
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Folio
Home Economics
Building affordable housing using advanced construction technologies.
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Folio
The Last Mile
A distribution network that reduces the volume of traffic on inner city streets
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Folio
Welcome to Walthamstow
A tourism strategy for Walthamstow that enriches the urban environment for visitors and residents alike.
Folio
Will Bellamy: Sugartown
London is a world city. It is simultaneously expanding and contracting, growing ever-outwards – and upwards – yet on the brink of divorce from the neighbouring continent. The next generation of designers must deliver fresh thinking to tackle issues that range from the scale of the street to global climate change. We asked pioneering graduates from the LSA how they’d adapt London to ensure that it is inclusive of its citizens, integrated with nature and fit for the future.
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Annecy Attlee: The Assembly Rooms
London is a world city. It is simultaneously expanding and contracting, growing ever-outwards – and upwards – yet on the brink of divorce from the neighbouring continent. The next generation of designers must deliver fresh thinking to tackle issues that range from the scale of the street to global climate change. We asked pioneering graduates from the LSA how they’d adapt London to ensure that it is inclusive of its citizens, integrated with nature and fit for the future
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Robert Buss: Bricklayers’ Arms Consolidation Centre
London is a world city. It is simultaneously expanding and contracting, growing ever-outwards – and upwards – yet on the brink of divorce from the neighbouring continent. The next generation of designers must deliver fresh thinking to tackle issues that range from the scale of the street to global climate change. We asked pioneering graduates from the LSA how they’d adapt London to ensure that it is inclusive of its citizens, integrated with nature and fit for the future.
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Editor-in-Chief
Isabel Allen -
Creative Director
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Art Editor
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Deputy Editor
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Staff Photographer
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Associate Editor
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Founders
Isabel Allen & Will Hunter