Sunday, March 26, 2023

CITIES

Culture

Communities

People and heritage

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In 2019 – Finsbury Park’s 150th anniversary year – we celebrated with a programme of events including #Everything150, a contemporary archaeology...
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Observations in paint: “What procedures?”

Politics Simon Poulter - 0

Anne Boleyn: Mother of the Anglican Church

Culture Kasper de Graaf - 0

“I did it any way”: what punk taught me

Culture Malcolm Garrett - 0

Exhibition brings People’s Park to life

Cities Kasper de Graaf - 0

Design

A voice, of sorts* – the life and art of Alan Kitching

Design
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The sound of Celia Stothard fills the room at 19 Cleaver Street in Kennington, transporting me to years precociously spent in...
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Architecture

Architecture

Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”

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The railway arches at Mayfield, a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Station, is what all of Manchester was like when Urban Splash...
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Cities

Re-imagining Manchester: Creatives Making Place

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In 1957, the historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote in the New York Times that “Manchester is the only English city which can...
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Architecture

RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

Kasper de Graaf - 0
In these days immediately following the mindless attack at Manchester Arena, it is impossible to write about anything Mancunian except in...
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LET'S GET THIS DONE

Observations in paint: “What procedures?”

Politics Simon Poulter - 0
Let's get this done Copyright © 2020 Simon Poulter What procedures? July 7, 2020
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Politics

Politics

Cost recovery and open data in the UK

Kasper de Graaf - 0
This paper was written to introduce the Policy Seminar on Public Mapping Data of the Institute of Urban Information.
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Politics

UK Borders: a line in the sand

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On 5 November 2008, Applied Information Group managing director Kasper de Graaf gave a presentation to the Sign Design Society about...
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Politics

Freedom and the far right: Europe’s bewildering dilemma

Kasper de Graaf - 0
The Dutch this weekend are conducting the kind of horsetrading held up by Tory newspapers before Britain’s election last month to...
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People

Raj Loomba: the widows’ voice

Kasper de Graaf - 0
The lot of a widow is shocking in many parts of the world, the sorrow of losing her husband compounded by...
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From the archives

Politics

Cost recovery and open data in the UK

Kasper de Graaf - 0
This paper was written to introduce the Policy Seminar on Public Mapping Data of the Institute of Urban Information.
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Politics

UK Borders: a line in the sand

Document Features - 0
On 5 November 2008, Applied Information Group managing director Kasper de Graaf gave a presentation to the Sign Design Society about...
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Politics

Freedom and the far right: Europe’s bewildering dilemma

Kasper de Graaf - 0
The Dutch this weekend are conducting the kind of horsetrading held up by Tory newspapers before Britain’s election last month to...
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Culture

Anne Boleyn: Mother of the Anglican Church

Kasper de Graaf - 0
She may not have given Henry VIII the male heir he thought so important but, apart from giving birth to arguably...
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Cities

Cities

Which way now for legible cities?

Kasper de Graaf - 0
Building on the vision of Kevin Lynch, who formulated the legible city concept in The Image of The City (Harvard/MIT, 1960),...
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Cities

Finsbury Park heritage programme concludes

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In 2019-20, 2NQ – the community non-profit co-directed by Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – delivered People + Heritage, a programme...
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Architecture

RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

Kasper de Graaf - 0
In these days immediately following the mindless attack at Manchester Arena, it is impossible to write about anything Mancunian except in...
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Culture

Communities

Safe Space: art for vulnerable adults in lockdown

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Safe Space, a new art workshop programme for older or vulnerable adults and carers designed “for lockdown and beyond” is launching...
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Politics

Observations in paint: “What procedures?”

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Let's get this done Copyright © 2020 Simon Poulter What procedures? July 7, 2020
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Design

A voice, of sorts* – the life and art of Alan Kitching

Kasper de Graaf - 0
The sound of Celia Stothard fills the room at 19 Cleaver Street in Kennington, transporting me to years precociously spent in...
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Design

Design

XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”

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We’ve been mesmerized by the COVID-19 pandemic for months. New problems have become apparent, but the old ones have not gone...
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Architecture

RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

Kasper de Graaf - 0
In these days immediately following the mindless attack at Manchester Arena, it is impossible to write about anything Mancunian except in...
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Design

Design & society: “local community should be involved”

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“When they're designing things in cities, local community people should be involved, because it is we that are actually going to...
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Politics

Politics

Covid-19 Threads #4: Amelia Hennegan

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https://vimeo.com/420111140 Covid-19 Threads is a series of short films presenting twitter posts that have appeared with...
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Politics

Ivo Peart: “Cummings and goings in Downing Street”

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Political writer Ivo Peart reviews strange goings-on at the heart of government in the first of his new columns for DOCUMENT....
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Politics

Cost recovery and open data in the UK

Kasper de Graaf - 0
This paper was written to introduce the Policy Seminar on Public Mapping Data of the Institute of Urban Information.
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