The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as a Featured Article in TPR 91.3. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: ‘Planning control and the politics of soft densification’ by Richard Dunning, Hannah Hickman and Aidan While When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, … Continue reading
Town Planning Review 91.3 Featured Article: Sebastian Dembski
The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as a Featured Article in TPR 91.3. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: ‘Organic approaches to planning as densification strategy? The challenge of legal contextualisation in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam’ by Sebastian Dembski. We asked Dembski to introduce his paper and … Continue reading
Royal Navy sailors were appalled by conditions on slave ships, but those they ‘rescued’ rarely experienced true freedom
This piece was originally published on The Conversation. Britain was once among the most enthusiastic of slave-trading nations. But just over 200 years ago, the country dramatically changed course and used its naval dominance against the transatlantic trade in enslaved African people, one of the worst historical crimes against humanity. After the Abolition Act of 1807 … Continue reading
Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape
Authors of forthcoming publication Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape, John Blair, Stephen Rippon, and Christopher Smart have shared an insight into their new work and how their book offers a completely new perspective on how villages and other settlements were formed. This collaboration between landscape archaeologists, historians and statisticians puts the early medieval landscape of … Continue reading
Wordsworth, Storm Desmond and the A591
Saeko Yoshikawa is the author of William Wordsworth and Modern Travel, a cultural history of the poet in the age of railways, motoring and the First World War, and the latest in our Romantic Reconfigurations series. In this blog post, she examines how ‘Lakeland’s oldest highway’, the A591, helped construct the cultural landscape of the Lake District. Storm Desmond will long … Continue reading
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