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Learnings from Emma Hall, Director of Placemaking With housing affordability taking centre stage in national conversations and cost-of-living pressures intensifying, it is more vital than ever to implement housing models that prioritise both individual and collective thriving. As investment in affordable housing accelerates, many organisations find themselves navigating new terrain where traditional policies struggle to match the pace of growth. For ten years, we have collabo

Creating places that give back We keep hearing that we’re at a tipping point, and this is true: seven of nine planetary boundaries* have been surpassed. Extreme weather events are accelerating. The gap between what we know and what we do about it feels like it keeps growing. Most alarming perhaps is how normal it’s all starting to feel. Have we resigned ourselves to this new normal? What can be done? What will make a difference? Currently, development takes more than it give

Can one person really change a city? Meet our hero, Jane Jacobs, a passionate writer and resident of Greenwich Village during the vibrant 1950s and 60s in New York City. A champion of place, she stood tall against the formidable Robert Moses, known as the master builder of New York. Moses reshaped the city to fit his vision, carving expressways through neighbourhoods, displacing families, and creating a city designed for cars rather than the people who lived there. Their publ

We’ve spent the last two decades building “smart” cities under the pretence that if we could just measure everything, we could fix everything. And so we’ve gone about installing sensors, data dashboards, and digitising our public services. It’s a seductive idea, because who doesn’t want a more efficient city? And yet therein lies the problem – efficiency isn’t the same as health. In city after city, the reality of a smart city has fallen short of its promises, testing the

The Ecology Pillar

Regenerative practitioners, placemakers and people who work in shaping places can help them thrive economically, honour local culture and...

Have you ever walked through a space that just didn’t feel right, but couldn’t quite put your finger on why? Maybe it felt cold,...

As the world continues to grow and evolve at an unprecedented pace, we are also witnessing a parallel rise in disconnection. In a time...