Great to see cycling as an issue in the election for a London Mayor and, since it is safer to judge politicians by what they do than by what they say, I will vote for the re-election of Boris Johnson. I have SEEN him cycling to work in London. Ken Livingstone says a bit about [...]
What are the social, political and economic conditions in which urban landscape design is most likely to flourish? I very much hope my answer to this question is wrong, but here goes: “in cities where an enlightened king was guided by spiritual beliefs”. Why should this be so? (1) Without temporal power, urban design is [...]
Iron is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust and, by mass, the most common element. It is a wonderful material, famed for its strength and mystery. Iron oxides give soils their red and yellow hues. They are nature’s foil to the often-garish colours of flowers and vivid greens of foliage. But gardeners [...]
This is the back Garden of where I lived before, the definition of which often leads to an argument between my former landlord and me. In my view, this is not a public open space, and he thinks it is. My reason is from the definition of POS in wikipedia: Public Open Space is often [...]
This blog has often discussed green roofs and green roof typologies but they always need more consideration: Green roofs c3500BC Turf was the standard roofing material in Neolithic North Europe. You can still see this roofing technique in Norway and Iceland Roof garden c1000BC The most famous elevated garden in history, the Hanging Gardens of [...]