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Spotlight
  • When A Story Makes Sense! | Kirsty Macari AoU

    When A Story Makes Sense! | Kirsty Macari 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
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  • 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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    Learning from Europe: Francois Bregnac on Lyon

  • Learning from Europe: Kristiaan Borret on Antwerp
  • A Brief History of Milton Keynes | David Lock CBE
  • Big Data and the Way We Design Cities | Eime Tobari AoU
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  • Biking Burg to Bourg Cycle trip coming in July!

    Biking Burg to Bourg Cycle trip coming in July!

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    Young Urbanist International Urbanism Studio 2018

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    Young Urbanist Mentoring Scheme

  • The Young Urbanists Agenda

    The Young Urbanists Agenda

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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