Book review: Pioneers in Public Health: Lessons from History
We were both surprised and delighted to receive a superb book review by Rosalind Stanwell-Smith, Honorary Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Royal Society for Public Health's journal Perspectives in Public Health (September [...]
Documentary photography and housing
I recently attended a documentary photography workshop. One question I had was how could I be braver about asking and taking photographs of people in their houses and then being able to use them for [...]
At home with dementia
Recently I was lucky to be able to attend the opening of the Building Research Establishment (BRE) new dementia home and exhibition. Based on evidence (as indicated in the exhibition poster photographed here), this carefully designed [...]
Two estates, two novels
There are two novels written about the estates we are thinking about in this post, as different in many ways as the estates themselves. The estates are very interrelated and mutually used but they are completely [...]
Red kites at home
I’ve been fascinated to watch the red kites creating their ‘home’ in a tree at the back of my garden. They are majestic birds, their vast wingspan soaring in rising air currents, looking strangely petite [...]
Park Hill, Sheffield
Estates like Park Hill were built as a brave and positive contribution to housing as part of a wider vision of how we might live in the urban environment. The council architects Jack Lynn and [...]