Citu has gone from being a developer to bringing the whole design and manufacturing process in-house with Citu Works, their factory building airtight homes. In this podcast, we meet founder and Managing Director Chris Thompson, visit the factory and go on a walk around the Climate Innovation District in Leeds, a 21-acre site on the River Aire. If you like our podcast, please support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/thedeveloperuk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 16, 2020•59 min
Glasgow is a city of extremes. It has the lowest life-expectancy in the UK, contains pockets of severe deprivation and is home to the most polluted street in Scotland. But it also, in sharp contrast, has the highest weekly income per resident among UK core cities, has pockets of overheated housing market, and has increased its workforce productivity by 30% over the past decade. We speak to Kevin Rush, Director of Regional Growth for Glasgow City Region, is delivering projects as part of the £1.1...
Apr 02, 2020•44 min
Kevin Barton, Director at Robert Bray Associates, creates climate-resilient landscapes, including flood-mitigating playspaces and a blue-green roof that saved one Hackney developer £800,000. When it comes to designing cities, he believes we need radical change. From tyre-dust microplastics to raw sewage overflows from Victorian pipes, Barton says professionals need to challenge the urban fabric and make it work a lot harder to proactively eliminate toxins and contribute to healthier cities. “Tha...
Mar 22, 2020•31 min
Can property development be an enabler for improving the environment? London-based developer The Berkeley Group is committed to increasing biodiversity on all of their sites. Louise Clarke, Head of Sustainable Places from The Berkeley Group explains why and how they incorporated a focus on nature into their corporate vision, and explains their biodiversity toolkit. Recorded at The Developer Live: Risk & Resilience Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 15, 2020•24 min
Once part of Ford's vast manufacturing outpost, the 720-acre post-industrial site will be transformed into a neighbourhood that includes 3,000 homes, a new train station, two schools and a medical centre. If you think brownfield sites are easy, listen to this. With Rob Wilkinson Managing Director Partnerships at Countryside and Evonne Clarke, Head of JV & Development East Region at L&Q Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 09, 2020•38 min
Martin Farrington, Director of City Development at Leeds City Council, about how the city tackled flood risk and created public space at the same time with its moveable weir, recently used during Storm Ciara. This podcast was recorded live at The Developer's Risk & Resilience conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 03, 2020•20 min
We need to ‘depave’ our cities street by street, says De Urbanisten’s Dirk van Peijpe, whose famous water squares combine flood resilience with public space including basketball courts and skateboard ramps. In this podcast, we hear van Peijpe's talk at The Developer's Risk & Resilience conference, where he talks about combining budgets to combine urban drainage with green space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 20, 2020•35 min
How do you evaluate climate risks such as flooding and build the momentum to invest in mitigation? We hear from industry leaders seeking to strike the balance between risk and resilience, including Dr Kathryn Oldham OBE, Chief Resilience Officer, Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Alexandra Notay, Build to Rent Fund Director, PfP Capital; Chantal Henderson, Director of Commercial Finance, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland; and Paul Berg and Jack Wolstencroft, both directors at Griffiths & ...
Feb 10, 2020•50 min
Natascha McIntyre Hall on the vision and people-first design for Tipner West in Portsmouth, which transforms an 140-acre post-industrial peninsular, home to a Ministry of Defence firing range, into a 4,000-home, car-free neighbourhood with one million square feet of marine employment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 08, 2020•50 min
“How much of your [property] fund is at risk from flooding, severe winds or overheating? If people can’t go to the office, they aren’t going to pay their rent,” says Alastair Mant, Head of Business Transformation, UKGBC. The opening speaker at The Developer’s Risk & Resilience conference in November 2019, Mant describes how finance is leading the charge on climate change risk-mitigation, and why this, more than anything else, is accelerating change in how we build our cities. Hosted on Acast...
Jan 27, 2020•23 min
Selina Mason, Director of Masterplanning at Lendlease speaks to The Developer about the past and future of London’s 560-acre Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a project she’s been involved with, on and off, since 2007; first, working on the delivery of the original 2012 masterplan for the Olympic Delivery Authority, then on the post-games Transformation Masterplan for the London Legacy Development Corporation, and now with Lendlease's 22-acre International Quarter London Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
Jan 09, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Architects are ivory-tower idealists and developers are profit-driven pariahs, or so the cliché goes. But in this interview, they agree on at least one thing – the need for radical change. Nick Searl, Partner of Argent and Argent Related and Daniel Hajjar, Managing Principal of HOK London and Dubai talk collaboration, communication and the climate emergency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 17, 2019•1 hr 13 min
What kind of cultural infrastructure is needed in our cities, how do we value culture and can it be curated? From music to food, we explore the ways in which culture contributes to place, and how to help creatives nest and grow. An on-stage conversation with Emma Warren, Author of Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre, Danny Keir, Global Head of Business Development for Sound Diplomacy; Clarisse Tavin, Group Manager of Major Programmes and Projects at City of London Corporation; ...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr
“Liverpool is undergoing unprecedented growth in investment,” Claire Slinger, Assistant Director for Investment and Development at Liverpool City Council tells The Developer. We learn how the council unlocked plans for its stalled 100 acre Festival Gardens site, and hear about their plans to entice more than 80,000 university and college students to stay in the city after graduation. We also talk about "inclusive growth" and how to bring the public along in a rapidly changing city. Hosted on Aca...
Oct 07, 2019•27 min
Dr. Patrice Derrington, who leads the prestigious real estate programme at Columbia University, tells the audience at the Festival of Place why she believes the high-stakes, fraught environment of real estate development needs a rethink, exploding some common myths about what makes places prosper along the way Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 30, 2019•46 min
Our high streets and city centres are in trouble. How should we remake them? Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance in Manhattan, Rachel Fisher, Deputy Director of Regeneration and Infrastructure at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Patricia Brown, Director of Central and Contributing Editor of The Developer share their views, learnings, and future plans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 15, 2019•58 min
We need a more blended approach to creating mixed communities says Anne Power, Head of LSE Housing and Communities. In her address at the Festival of Place 2019, Power draws from her professional experience working in government policy, from ten years in Thatcher’s government to working under New Labour, to point out some of placemaking's failings. Power has been involved in tackling housing and urban problems since 1965, including working for Martin Luther King’s End Slums campaign in Chicago i...
Sep 11, 2019•49 min
Sir Stuart Lipton talks offices and place in conversation with Giles Barrie at the 2019 Festival of Place. One of the first developers to recognise the importance of place in creating large-scale urban developments, Lipton talks about the past, present, planning and future of workplace making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 05, 2019•41 min
Dan Labbad, Chief Executive of Lendlease Europe and future CEO of the Crown Estate talks to Christine Murray on stage at the Festival of Place on what he's learned working for the past 20 years at the centre of heated debate about how we redevelop UK cities: "Your license to operate comes from how you impact on communities." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 14, 2019•36 min
How Helical with AHMM transformed an unloved and badly managed British Telecom office complex on Old Street Roundabout into a place. This classic 1960s Modernist campus has seen its former rear carpark transformed into a mews-like street. Across the complex, there are five restaurants, two coffee bars, a hotel, gym and new public spaces. The nature of the businesses based here – Farfetch and WeWork, amongst others – reinforces the decision to combine business with leisure to create a place, rath...
Jul 29, 2019•39 min
Without the Royal National Institute of Blind People, there’s no chance Countryside would have gained planning for private housing on the green belt; and without Countryside, RNIB would not have been able to replace their dated 1960s facility on site. So began an innovative partnership that sees the design and development of an inclusive enclave from what Cocks descried as “a cold and empty place that felt more like an institution than a community.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Jul 17, 2019•31 min
Landscape architect Will Sandy and Building Centre creative director Vanessa Norwood discuss the impact Extinction Rebellion’s actions are having on the built environment and how we perceive the future of the city. Sandy is creative director at The Edible Bus Stop, a biodiverse design studio whose temporary and permanent spaces can be seen all over London. Norwood is creative director of the Building Centre and was previously Head of Exhibitions at the Architectural Association. Hosted on Acast....
Jul 07, 2019•56 min
The Bee Network creates 75 miles of Dutch-style segregated cycle lanes and safe pedestrian crossings, and 1000 miles of walking and cycling routes in Manchester and will be accessible to 92% of the Greater Manchester population, the largest network of its kind in the UK. Nitasha Kapoor met with street design engineer Brian Deegan on designing cycling infrastructure for the northwest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 02, 2019•43 min
What does a city need to foster a successful music industry? This is something Shain Shapiro knows better than anyone. His consultancy advises city governments and property developers on the cultural economy. But despite the growing profile of Sound Diplomacy’s work, however, Shapiro says “the debate is broken.” For policy to be successful, Shapiro says, officers must be agnostic to musical style. One person’s noise is another’s music, Shapiro adds, with a reminder that the two most popular genr...
Jun 10, 2019•37 min
Bonus episode: In this talk at the Roca London Gallery, Danish architect Jan Gehl discusses his extensive work creating cities for people worldwide, using psychology and architecture to support a human-centred approach to urban planning and design. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 15, 2019•57 min
Global Generation’s Skip Garden in King’s Cross is a much-loved organic core for its development. Now co-founder Jane Riddiford has created the Paper Garden, a new incarnation at Canada Water, with the ambition of realising the power of community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 13, 2019•48 min
Director of the Illuminated River Project, Sarah Gaventa discusses Leo Villareal’s public art project in London that will accentuate 15 bridges over the Thames. The ambitious £45m project begins with the illumination of London Bridge, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium Bridge, with all bridges completed by 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 06, 2019•35 min
After a call-out on Twitter, professionals from across the UK joined a conversation about child-friendly cities in the UK that developed into a meet-up at a curry house near the train station in Leeds, organised by Emma Bearman of Playful Anywhere CIC and recorded by The Developer. Here, practitioners shared their ambitions and the challenges they are facing in pursuing a child-friendly agenda. This conversation serves as a powerful sign of this growing movement across the UK to create more play...
Apr 23, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Paul Monaghan is founding partner of one of the most successful architecture practices in the UK, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Now, he's got a new role, as design champion for his hometown of Liverpool, with a mandate to get design quality on the agenda. We talk about urban redevelopment in the UK: the good, the bad and the uniquely Scouse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 14, 2019•58 min
With a need for new homes and under pressure from council cuts, Croydon Council established Brick by Brick in 2016, a limited company that would tackle the housing crisis across the borough. The ambition was to build 2000 new homes on 50 sites. We take a walk with Chloe Phelps, Head of Design for Brick by Brick to visit some of the first fruits of this ambitious programme Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 07, 2019•1 hr 18 min
