Out There

In an amusing an allegory-filled interview, James Gross AoU, experiences ‘drinking from a firehose’ seeking to extract Richard Upton, Deputy Chief Executive of developer U+Is views on density, tall buildings in the wrong place, and the implications that changing the skyline has on a community.

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"We felt that there was a business plan that could work with the alchemy of great purpose and great profits." Richard Upton, Deputy CEO of U+I

Academy of Urbanism

Interview with Jacob Bundsgaard

Highlighting Denmark’s second city, European Capital of Culture 2017 and destination for the 12th AoU Congress, James Gross AoU travelled to Aarhus (pronounced ‘Or-hus’) to talk to the dynamic City Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard and find out what it is it that makes this thriving university city tick.

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“If we ask people who live here: What are the two top priorities that make a good city? The answers we get are: one, cultural life; two, closeness to nature.” Jacob Bundsgaard, Mayor of Aarhus, Denmark

Whitehill & Bordon

12 Architects Workshop

Opening up our work to constructive review, challenge and enquiry is one of the many distinctions that sets UPL apart from conventional design practices.

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"Without doubt the best Stakeholder Engagement event I have either attended or sponsored" Lee Bishop, UK Board Director of Taylor Wimpey

Academy of Urbanism

Interview with the late Ben Hamilton-Baillee

In the unabridged version of the interview, Ben Hamilton Baillee went further than the published article for the AoU Journal, Here and Now, stating that ‘small accidents can be good for safety’.

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“Maybe it’s a matter of us switching from one paradigm to another with a number of factors, having a slow but steady influence on the way we value and treat the built environment.” Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Architect and Street Designer

Academy of Urbanism

Interview with Julia Unwin CBE

On the occasion of her stepping down from the helm of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, James Gross AoU, interviewed Julia Unwin CBE on the eve of her assuming a new role as the chair of the independent inquiry into civil society, advocating participation in a shared pact for civil society: shifting power, promoting an accountability revolution, building deeper, closer connections and investing in trust.

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"Our planning system privileges the ability to resist and say no, rather than to imagine and to create something new." Julia Unwin CBE, former CEO of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Academy of Urbanism

Interview with Dame Kate Barker

In this probing interview, James Gross AoU, established the fact that from government Economist., Dame Kate Barker, believes that we are still a generation away from a housing crisis, with many families absorbing the issue under shared accommodation in the same household, suggesting when the current generation of homes owners have faded away a crisis of greater proportion will hit hard!

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"If you haven’t got on the housing ladder, you are kind of trapped in a spiral" Dame Kate Barker, former Government Economist

Competition

2014 Wolfson Economics Prize Into Garden Cities

2014 Wolfson Economics Prize, selected out of 279 entries, from 12 countries.

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Competition

Harlow North

Tina Spires and James Gross, working with Barton Willmore and Studio Egret West, assisted in the authorship and development of this insightful paper

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