Don’t breathe in Oxford Street
Caption: An image of a traffic free Oxford Street from one of Labour’s 2016 Mayoral candidates, Christian Wolmar. David Carslaw’s paper at the June 2014 London Air Quality Network …
Waterlink Way – a greenway connecting Greenwich and Lewisham
The Waterlink Way, from Greenwich to Lewisham, was ‘completed’ c 2009 and is categorised as a greenwway on the TfL Website. The section south of Lewisham Town Centre has been much improved since the 1980s and is now a valuable …
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Can cyclists and pedestrians share a path?
The answer depends entirely on traffic volumes. There are no problems if they are low but sharing is impossible if the volume of either pedestrians or cyclists is high. In London, the regulations take no account of this obvious truth. The Thames …
London can have a Roof Garden City above its two other landscape architectures
London is the European capital with the best claim to being a ‘garden city’. This is because of its extensive parks and the historic norm of every house having a private garden. But London is becoming a city of office …
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Leicester Square landscape architecture London
The 2012 re-design of Leicester Square by landscape architects Burns+Nice is working well. It was changed it from ‘just another London Square’ into the heart of a cinema district. But they could do with a big outdoor screen for showing the …
Information resources for landscape architecture
Landscape architecture books, magazines and websites Introductions for students and applicants to landscape courses The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture, Tim Waterman Bloombury; 2015 Landscape Architecture: An Introduction Robert Holden and Jamie Liversedge Laurence King; 2014 Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction, Ian Thompson …
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Deptford Creekside housing
Deptford Creekside East is a housing development designed by Squire and Partners. The best thing about it is the roof gardens which, because they are for residents only (sensibly) I have not visited. The interiors, judging from the adverts, are …
Regent’s Park Terraces – housing as architecture and landscape in London
The Regent’s Park Terraces are London’s finest example of scenic architecture. The define the space. John Nash designed a full elevation for the buildings enclosing Regent’s Park and was then involved with the detailed design of: Cumberland Terrace, Chester Terrace, …
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Cross Bones Garden of Remembrance by Bankside Open Spaces Trust
Cross Bones Garden is being made on the site of Cross Bones Graveyard. For centuries, it was a paupers’ burial ground used for the interment of bodies which could not be accommodated on consecrated ground. Many of the people buried …
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Stockwell Street – University of Greenwich Green Roof London
The University of Greenwich’s Department of Architecture and Landscape, in Stockwell Street has extensive green roofs, used as follows: about half the area is designed as roof gardens (‘intensive green roofs’) and are accessible to landscape architecture students and staff …
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