Book / Complex City
Complex City is a detailed mapping of London’s historic layers, emerging from our work in characterisation studies. The book puts forward a new argument for character-based development.
Book / Citymakers: Communities shaped by transport
Ever since the first settlements, connected by and grown through trading routes, the correlation between cities and their movement networks has been intricately linked.
Book / King's Cross: The Making of a Masterplan
An exploration of an urban regeneration project that has raised the bar in citymaking, by the masterplanners and developer who authored this special piece of city.
Book / Citymakers: City Knowledge, Knowledge City
A centuries old relationship; knowledge production and the city. We explore how that relationship manifests itself in three UK cities, and how the dynamic is evolving.
Book / Citymakers: What we leave behind
The climate emergency demands we retain much more of our urban fabric rather than build anew. Here we explore ways of approaching the often awkward urban inheritance of the 20th century.
Book / Citymakers: Pragmatics of the Picturesque
The Picturesque has come to influence how we look at and respond to the city. We investigate what the picturesque is, as both a theory of historic origins and as a practical design tool for urbanists.
Book / Citymakers: A new Urban Model
Msheireb Downtown Doha has sought to engage with a growing Gulf city's local climate and culture. To better appreciate it, we explored it as a case study in urban change.
Book / Fabric of Place
The Fabric of Place explores how cites, towns and villages can evolve and change by building on their historic form and identity rather than by sacrificing them.
