Sustaining Place

Recapping the Launch: Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character (American release, February 22, 2021, UK and European release, Spring 2021) focuses on how to understand the innate identity of…

Place Parts, Episode 18: Landscape Ghosts, with Shannon Nichol

How do we unearth and rediscover landscapes which we can no longer see? Personal and collective memories in defining a place’s culture and character have…

Place Parts, Episode 17: Understanding the Blends

Today’s episode in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, recalls the look and feel of urban blends discussed in Sustaining a City’s Culture and…

Place Parts, Episode 16: Place Exists, Just Listen

Who says that place is all about engineered or built environments? It isn’t, a point I emphasize many times in Sustaining a City’s Culture and…

Place Parts, Episode 13: Will the Technology Campus Sustain?

Today, we pose questions based on Vodaphone’s world headquarters in Newbury (and the “Shaw Valley” housing development next door). Post-pandemic, will what is now empty–or…

Place Parts, Episode 11: Book Launch Summit, with Tigran Haas

Today, we celebrate Book Launch Day for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character. This book focuses on the culture and character of one city compared…

Place Parts, Episode 7: Replenishing Place at Many Scales

Why sustain the status quo if it’s not good enough? After reconnecting with my friend, thought leader Dr. Tia Kansara, I’m even more fascinated with…

Place Parts, Episode 4: Placemaking Tools, Hollywood Style, with Richard Karn

Breaking news, in two parts. Firstly, there’s an epic reunion pending for Home Improvement stars Tim Allen and Richard Karn, in a new History Channel…

Place Parts, Episode 3: The Storybook and the Real

Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 3, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character:…

Place Parts, Episode 2: Place, Time, and Ideas

Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 2, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character:…