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"There's a real outdoor community. Everyone joins up and plays"

"There's a real outdoor community. Everyone joins up and plays"

"White Flats" is a powerful short film on how the design of a housing estate can create community and encourage independence and child’s play
"The cough develops again and its grown" – The impact of air pollution

"The cough develops again and its grown" – The impact of air pollution

In a film commissioned by TRUUD,  Shakar and his family explain the impact of traffic noise and pollution on the health and wellbeing of their families
"I feel stressed in this house" – The impact of damp

"I feel stressed in this house" – The impact of damp

In a film commissioned by TRUUD, Kadra and Wendy explain the impact of damp on the health and wellbeing of their families
"I fell asleep at school" – The impact of overcrowding

"I fell asleep at school" – The impact of overcrowding

In a film commissioned by TRUUD, Samuel explains the impact of overcrowding on the health of his two young sons
Fabrications: Using knitted artworks to challenge developer narratives

Fabrications: Using knitted artworks to challenge developer narratives

Artist Sam Meech chronicles the displacement and erasure of South Asian textile workers at Crusader Mill and shares the knitted artworks created in response
My Place Finsbury Park

My Place Finsbury Park

A film about My Place, which employs local young people (aged 13-18) to be trained as researchers, advocates and leaders for the diverse communities they represent
These Are Homes: The flats produced through Permitted Development Rights

These Are Homes: The flats produced through Permitted Development Rights

Photographer Rob Clayton exposes the living conditions in PDR homes as part of the TCPA’s Healthy Homes campaign, which has tabled the Healthy Homes principles as amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill

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Placetest: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Placetest: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Anthropologist Caroline Bennett speaks to locals with photography by John Sturrock
Placetest: New Poundbury

Placetest: New Poundbury

Its Royal patron makes Poundbury the focus of much attention, and the development is not even ...
Placetest: Nine Elms

Placetest: Nine Elms

What is the experience of this nascent place and its people? Anthropologist Caroline Bennett visits ...
Placetest: Liverpool One

Placetest: Liverpool One

In this exclusive placetest, anthropologist Rebecca Toop explores the user experience of L...
Placetest: King's Crescent Estate

Placetest: King's Crescent Estate

Placetest King’s Crescent Estate: A part-demolished estate in Stoke Newington is enjoying an ...
Placetest: MediaCityUK

Placetest: MediaCityUK

Placetest MediaCityUK: What is it like to live and work in Peel’s MediaCityUK and has it brought ...
Placetest: King’s Cross

Placetest: King’s Cross

Placetest King’s Cross: How does it work, who is there – and who isn’t? How does the masterplan ...

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Lockwood Way: Transforming an industrial estate

Lockwood Way: Transforming an industrial estate

A short documentary explores the impact of We Made That’s modest interventions to an industrial estate on Blackhorse Lane in Walthamstow to make it a more appealing place to work and visit. Film by Jim Stephenson
High Hopes: Voices from the streets of Lewisham

High Hopes: Voices from the streets of Lewisham

Lewisham resident Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz presents a documentary film in the tape/slide tradition, photographed and recorded in October 2021
Harlow homes: How PDR destroys local communities and builds Britain's worst housing

Harlow homes: How PDR destroys local communities and builds Britain's worst housing

Permitted Development Rights allow developers to bypass community consultation and planning standards to build homes. This film by Simon Mercer visits Harlow where 51% of new homes were office conversions under PDR in 2018/2019
Places for girls

Places for girls

With 80% of public spaces taken over by boys, how do we create spaces for girls? In this film, young women at a Hackney secondary school reveal what they need from their city
Marmalade Lane

Marmalade Lane

In this film, the designers, developers and residents reflect on the development of Marmalade Lane in Cambridge, the UK’s largest cohousing project
Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

Building community: Granby’s Winter Garden

This 360 film documents the making of Granby’s Winter Garden accompanied by the voices of Four Streets

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Who is it for? The fight for the soul of Coal Drops Yard

Who is it for? The fight for the soul of Coal Drops Yard

It speaks to the success of King’s Cross that its residents are arguing over the "feel" of its future, writes Christine Murray. But is this upset really what it seems?
“The healthiest places have spontaneous play engrained in their public spaces”

“The healthiest places have spontaneous play engrained in their public spaces”

Inspired by one too many episodes of Race Across the World, Josh Dickerson takes a whirlwind tour of play spaces across Europe and finds open-ended, non-structured play spaces in lieu of fenced-off playgrounds
"There's a real outdoor community. Everyone joins up and plays"

"There's a real outdoor community. Everyone joins up and plays"

"White Flats" is a powerful short film on how the design of a housing estate can create community and encourage independence and child’s play
“Prosperity does not spillover” from regeneration sites to wider neighbourhood

“Prosperity does not spillover” from regeneration sites to wider neighbourhood

At face value, developments deliver prosperity, but there are stark differences between people living on and nearby sites, industry-backed report reveals
Permitted development homes “uninhabitable” for the future

Permitted development homes “uninhabitable” for the future

Zurich UK warns that office-to-residential conversions are creating subpar housing at risk of overheating

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