Spaces & Places
My interest in 'spaces and places' was both professional and personal. Many people pursue this by taking an interest in design, but I was more interested in how to make things happen. As a sideline, I did quite a bit of coaching and teaching of built environment professionals, ranging from student architects and local authority planners to developers and the Planning Inspectorate. This post contains links to a small selection of material on development economics and delivery strategies that I used, some of which originally appeared in professional journals or for publication by the RICS or RTPI. Most of it is quite old now, and a lot of the hard data and references to regulations are out of date. But the general analysis of the financial hydraulics remains relevant, and I hope you find it expressed here in rather more accessible terms than you find in the dreary textbooks. The more recent posts are simply musings on the chang...