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Spotlight
  • Education can make a difference | Dr. Negin Minaei AoU

    Education can make a difference | Dr. Negin Minaei AoU

  • The secret to creating good urban communities? Learning from example! | Nick Childs AoU
  • Connecting with Civil Society: A Journey | David Lumb
  • Changing the world one city at a time | Prof. Samer Bagaeen AoU
Chair’s Blog
  • The complicated truth behind a regeneration success story

    The complicated truth behind a regeneration success story

  • Follow the housing
  • We love predicting the future but we’ve lost the ambition to plan for it
  • It’s time to reconcile architects and urbanists
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  • A Brief History of Milton Keynes | David Lock CBE

    A Brief History of Milton Keynes | David Lock CBE

  • Big Data and the Way We Design Cities | Eime Tobari AoU
  • Design Innovation | David Green AoU
  • Smart Mobility, Sustainable Designs | Judith Sykes
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  • YU Event / 4th Annual Members Xmas Party
    Young Urbanists

    YU Event / 4th Annual Members Xmas Party

AoU Journal Here & Now
My own view is… There is an art to borrowing | Robbie Kerr

My own view is… There is an art to borrowing | Robbie Kerr

Is it really wrong to borrow from the past, from place or from context? The last 18 months have seen

  • URBAN Emergence Manifesto
  • Planning cities around streets
  • From concrete to glass: The post-war trajectory of London’s high-rise housing
  • 10 lessons from MK – a personal view
  • Grey sky modernists
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