CITY X-RAYS

About the Project

The Academy of Urbanism is committed to compiling a set of tools with which to deepen our understanding about how places work. To this end, we will start the search for techniques and methodologies which can be usefully applied in order to build on existing bodies of evidence and performance indicators relating to place.

To begin developing City X-Rays in 2009, the Academy embarked on a series of discussions, hosted by Academicians, around the UK and Ireland. These discussions attracted a mix of more than 120 Academicians and opinion formers from each location, helping to scope the issues surrounding the measure of places.

During 2010, the Academy will continue to intensify the exchange of information between people, through a series of events, and work towards evaluating and launching a suite of place-measuring tools.

It is our intention to make City X-Rays widely accessible to students, teachers, practitioners and policy-makers, and to use the Academy gatherings as platforms to discuss how this can be taken forward.