Earlier this year, Dezeen reported on research from MIT’s Senseable City Lab which suggests that pedestrians are walking 15 per cent faster and stopping to linger 14 per cent less than they used to. Computer models comparing William H Whyte’s Social Life of Small Open Spaces and similar footage by Keith N Hampton 30 years later also found that, in 1980,

Keep on the grass: The language of signs A playful exploration of instruction in public places Free exhibition at the Building Centre, London WC1E 7BT   Keep on the grass grew out of conversations I had with colleagues about the role of signs in making people feel welcome in public places, particularly parks. I’d been

Last year, colleagues from Highgate Cemetery joined the Healthy Parks and Green Space Network I jointly run with Gemma Moore and Liza Griffin from UCL’s Bartlett Faculty. The Cemetery team also generously hosted our first in-person meeting, in one of their chapels. We organised a “green walk” to this from Archway station to help participants