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cycleways, London cycle network

2017 facts about London Cycling – and a question

Tom Turner Oct 11, 2017 Tagged with London

The just-published report Street Smarts: Report of the Commission on the Future of London’s Roads and Streets contains facts about cycling and leads me to ask: do cyclists have their fair share of (1) London’s road space? (2) London’s investment? I guess …

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cycleways, urban design

The attrition of vehicles by cities is good for cyclists and pedestrians

Tom Turner Oct 8, 2017

With surpassing brilliance Jane Jacobs advocated ‘the attrition of automobiles‘ in cities. She wrote that ‘Attrition of automobiles operates by making conditions less convenient for cars. Attrition as a steady, gradual process (something that does not now exist) would steadily …

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landscape planning

Farming, wildlife, Michael Gove and landscape architecture

Tom Turner Oct 3, 2017

Great to hear a  UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs declare that (EU) farming policy has been environmentally damaging and socially unjust. Gove says: ‘The number of farmland birds has reduced by more than half, pollinators such …

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public parks

Crystal Palace Park Trust and landscape architecture history

Tom Turner Sep 29, 2017 Tagged with London

Are public parks best managed by local authorities on not-for-profit trusts? Bromley Council is about to find out. It took on the management of the Crystal Palace Park when the GLC was wound up. I think it did a better …

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cycleways, London cycle network

TfL consult on CS4 A200 cycle route – see video

Tom Turner Sep 28, 2017

Excellent news that TfL is going to consultation on CS4, from 28th Sept to 29th Nov. The above video shows the hell of cycling as it is on the A200. TfL have, I assume, been so embarrassed that LCN 183 …

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landscape architecture

Last day to get free LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE eBook

Tom Turner Sep 14, 2017

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: What, Why, When, How, Where, Who and What Next? £0.00 to buy Kindle Edition by Tom Turner (Author) Be the first to review this item This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited

landscape planning, landscape urbanism

ESRI origins of Geodesign

Tom Turner Sep 11, 2017

Professor David Maguire, as Vice-Chancellor of the University Greenwich gave a short talk on Geodesign at the opening of the 2017 ECLAS conference. He worked in Geographical Information Systems for 25 years before coming to Greenwich and much of the …

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community gardens

Johanna of J&L Gibbons ECLAS lecture on Second Nature

Tom Turner Sep 11, 2017

Jo gave a most interesting lecture to the Greenwich ECLAS landscape architecture conference in September 2017. It had three themes. First Urban forestry. Many of the principles of sustainable design come from forestry practice. When we have No Trees we …

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landscape architecture, landscape design theory

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – Kindle eBook

Tom Turner Sep 10, 2017 Tagged with geodesign

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: What, Why, When, How, Where, Who and What Next? £0.00 in September 2017 Kindle Edition by Tom Turner (Author) Be the first to review this item This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited

landscape architecture

Did chess originate as a garden game?

Tom Turner Sep 9, 2017

Chess originated in India’s Gupta Empire (320 to 550 CE). Since Indian palace life centred on courtyards and gardens, it is likely that most games of chess were played in cool shade and green surroundings. The Hindu name for chess …

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