in the press
2016 archive
Time + Place
How the School of Planning picked up where the Farrell Review left off, helping to create and nurture the Place Alliance into a leading voice on best practice in urban design. Read more →
Place Alliance leads UCL success at RTPI Awards for Research Excellence
The Place Alliance, a national movement brought together by UCL to campaign for high quality places has won the Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement at the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2016. Read more →
Read more“Winning the RTPI 2016 Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement represented a great honour and significant achievement for all those that have been involved in the development of the Place Alliance. It has given us even greater confidence to continue with our work making the case for place quality and has encouraged many others to become involved” Prof Matthew Carmona, Chair, Place Alliance
UCL’s national movement for high quality in place design wins national research award
A national movement campaigning for high quality places brought together by the University College London has won the Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement in year 2016 RTPI Awards for Research Excellence. Read more →
Interview with Matthew Carmona: In search of Harmony
From protecting public rights in private spaces to ensuring ‘permission in principle’ preserves local character, Matthew Carmona is determined to reconcile public interest and private gain in well-designed places and spaces, finds David Blackman. Read more →
The Place Alliance Big Midlands Meet
The Place Alliance Big Midlands Meet was an excellent platform to discuss the future of regional planning and urban design: from housing pressures to creation of places with a sense of identity. Read more →
Big Meet 5: Event Summary
Design Review – the main theme of The Big Meet 5: how panels engage with communities and how design review could be evaluated? Read more →
Government should consider built environment committee report – RTPI
A number of built environment organisations have written a letter urging communities secretary Greg Clark to take seriously a number of recommendations made by the House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment. Read more →
Big Meet 5 – Design Review
Detailed summary of The Big Meet 5 which focused on Design Review: its past, present and future. Read more →
Architects praise Lords for Demanding joined-up design policy
Building Better Places report recommends built environment adviser and mandatory design review in order to improve the quality of places that we create, rather than just focusing on housing numbers. Read more →
“Building better places” report by House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy on the Built Environment
This NLA talk given by Prof Matthew Carmona, Specialist advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment, will be the first briefing and debate on the findings of the Committee, to be published on Friday 19th February. Read more →