All Outputs (19)

Borders (2023)
Journal Article

An editorial for UoU Scientific Journal #05 on the theme of borders commentating on the breadth of the term (and associated terms) in architecture and urbanism, along with a reflective commentory on the articles in this edition of the journal, for w... Read More about Borders.

Conversation on a digital folly (2021)
Journal Article

A Digital Folly (2021). A digital type based on experiential communication and learning above an administrative pool. This Folly is an “atmospheric screen” engaging its audience in its micro-knowledge. A sphere, a uniform solid where every point on i... Read More about Conversation on a digital folly.

Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Urban boundaries are multitudinous. Urban design and associated disciplines concerned with shaping place often base their readings of space and the implementation of urban projects around tangible, mapped legal and administrative borders. Yet, despit... Read More about Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders.

Architectural place as a resource: Principles towards a manifesto (2015)
Digital Artefact

There is a great deal of debate around the question of who owns our cities. Space and buildings perceived as 'public' are often not as 'open' and accessible as they appear to be whilst 'private' space and buildings are often very 'open.' The question... Read More about Architectural place as a resource: Principles towards a manifesto.

International interpretations of the garden city ideal: Lessons for placemaking (2015)
Journal Article

The Garden City Idea, first promoted by Ebenezer Howard in the UK during the early part of twentieth century, quickly spread around the world. In so doing, though, it became transformed to suit local circumstances and often became a very different ph... Read More about International interpretations of the garden city ideal: Lessons for placemaking.

Public-Private; who knows: who cares? (2014)
Digital Artefact

David Littlefield and Mike Devereux were commissioned to draw a map focusing on the issue of land seizure. This begged the question: who is seizing what? The privatisation of land and services (even through temporary, but often extended, leases) is s... Read More about Public-Private; who knows: who cares?.

Crafting the collaborative studio (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The teaching of architecture, structural engineering and planning in higher education has, for the last sixty years or so, been strongly governed by the requirements of professional bodies who have set relatively strict guidelines on content and appr... Read More about Crafting the collaborative studio.

La diffusion de l’ideal des cites-jardins autour du monde (2013)
Journal Article

En faisant un voyage autour du monde, le concept de ‘cité-jardin’ a pris de nombreuses formes, peut-être pas toutes capable d’être instantanément reconnues par Ebenezer Howard l'homme le plus souvent considéré comme créateur de cette forme idéalisée... Read More about La diffusion de l’ideal des cites-jardins autour du monde.

La République peut-elle porter l’habit anglais? (2012)
Journal Article

This paper (written in French) suggests that French planners, operating in a Rousseauiste tradition, have an arsenal of rules, regulations and powers at their disposal to protect the republican ideal of 'equality'. English planners on the other hand,... Read More about La République peut-elle porter l’habit anglais?.

Crossing at the Border - 1 October, 14h09 (2012)
Exhibition / Performance

This work formed part of a series of images taken at and around the Peripherique of Paris as part of an exploration into how art based research method can be used to map cultural borders. It investigates the idea of movement at the border whilst leav... Read More about Crossing at the Border - 1 October, 14h09.

Fit for purpose? Planning and food production in the peri-urban space (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A recent British Council project highlighted the important role that local food production can play in addressing climate change. But is our planning system capable supporting strategies to encourage small scale and community food production, especia... Read More about Fit for purpose? Planning and food production in the peri-urban space.

Making space for place: from development management to planning (2012)
Book Chapter

This paper surveys the position that place currently holds within the discipline of planning in the UK, and advocates a move away from current models of development management to one of explicit place-making. The paper’s concern is the planning sys... Read More about Making space for place: from development management to planning.

Trompes l'oeil (2012)
Journal Article

This article challenges the myth that London is an organic, unplanned city shaped by economic forces, and Paris is, in contrast a planned city moulded by the state. The modern development of the two cities is tracked from the early nineteenth century... Read More about Trompes l'oeil.

In Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's (2012)
Journal Article

It is a little known fact that until the 1920s Paris was surrounded by a wall and entry into the city controlled through gates. That wall demarcated Paris from the rest of France. After its demolition that distinction between Paris 'intra-muros' and... Read More about In Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's.

Inverted peripheries: Le Boulevard Périphérique and the struggle for identity in Paris (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Le Périphérique is a 35.04kms long inner ring road built around Paris following the line of the former defensive wall demolished in 1929. Ever since it opened in 1973 there have been attempts to reduce its physical impact on the landscape. It is gene... Read More about Inverted peripheries: Le Boulevard Périphérique and the struggle for identity in Paris.

Language and identity: Lessons from Ireland (2011)
Journal Article

This article explores the difficulties faced in keeping the Irish languages in daily use in those areas of Ireland where the influx of English as as dominant language is a threat. In particular it focusses on the approach of planners to controlling t... Read More about Language and identity: Lessons from Ireland.

The changing role of the Jardin Publique in the planning of Paris (2010)
Journal Article

Paris, with 24,400 persons per km2( ), is the most densely populated capital city in Europe, yet at the same time it is one of the capitals that offers its inhabitants the least green space of all (Paris 13m2 per habitant compared with London 45m2) (... Read More about The changing role of the Jardin Publique in the planning of Paris.

A spatial vision for north-west Europe (2001)
Journal Article

Urban design, place and integration: A study of Liverpool one
Other

A detailed examination, commissioned by Grosvenor Liverpool Fund, of Liverpool One - a privately-owned, mixed-use, retail-led regeneration project in Liverpool city centre. Drawing on literature concerning public/private place, David Littlefield and... Read More about Urban design, place and integration: A study of Liverpool one.