I hadn’t been to the Anfield area of Liverpool for a while and this week had a look round and left in a state of shock, anger but also with a mid racing of what can be. Anfield is, or in some cases now, was an area of proud looking solid mid 19th century houses [...]
Archive for the ‘Placemaking’ Category
Wayne Mouths off about Liverpool Anfield Pathfinder
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wayne mouths off about the need for a Creative Insurgency
Posted in 2009, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Hemingway Design Project, Independent Retailing, Placemaking on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Looking back to the turn of the 80s when Gerardine and I started out… We’d never considered being designers, it wasn’t on the radar of two teenagers from Lancashire. I was playing in a band and we used to hang out in Camden. When Gerardine and I ran out of money to pay the rent [...]
Wayne mouths off about why Britain fares so poorly in all the league tables of The World’s Most Liveable Cities
Posted in 2009, Architecture, Community, Economy, Placemaking, Travel, Urban Design on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When Copenhagen won Monocles Worlds Most Liveable City Award in 2008 they rightly made great play of their triumph. Copenhagen’s City Council has clearly had liveability (which to me means happiness) right at the forefront of their minds. With streets full of serendipity where you can find quirky start up businesses next to chain stores, [...]
Wayne Mouths off some more about cycling & kids play & even a new way of delivering developments
Posted in 2008, Economy, Family, Green Space, Placemaking, Transport on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a patron of Sustrans (the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity), and recently chaired a conference organised by them and Play England which looked at some of the serious issues around Britain’s decline in places for children to enjoy safe outside play, to cycle safely and the resultant health issues. Here are some things I [...]
Is Vancouver really the world’s most liveable city?
Posted in 2008, Placemaking, Travel, Urban Design on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Google “ the worlds most liveable city” and Vancouver comes up. Reading on about these liveability surveys and Vancouver is also classed as one of the worlds most sustainable cities. When 4 of the Hemingways are either working in or studying urban design and with yours truly being half Canadian and only ever going there [...]
A tale of Two Cities or rather one city and one town
Posted in 2008, Community, Placemaking, Regeneration, Uncategorized on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Within the space of a couple of weeks I have been asked to do talks and give my impressions of Leeds and Dewsbury. Leeds is seen as pretty successful with a history of significant inward investment, its the regional capital with a population of about ¾ of a million. Dewsbury on the other hand is [...]
Wayne mouths off about the value of low cost business start up opportunities
Posted in 2008, Design, Economy, Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Travel on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am often asked, 27 years on, could Gerardine and I start our careers today in a similar way to how we started out. In 1981 whist still in our teens, Gerardine and I emptied our wardrobes onto Camden Market on a Saturday morning, the rent was £6 and we took just over a £100. [...]
Wayne mouths off about how stupid the country is at embracing cycling | 2007
Posted in 2007, Community, Eco - Friendly, Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Regeneration, Sustainability, Transport, Urban Design on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cycling has become my way of getting some sport into part pf my working day. But I am still in the minority. Why are we being so slow in at making our towns and cities more cycleable and walkable? We keep being told about a British obesity crisis, many of our cities roads are clogged [...]
Wayne refuses to use the name Thames Gateway | 2007
Posted in 2007, Affordable Housing, Community, Placemaking on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Thames Gateway conference has just taken place… an annual event that celebrates (if that’s the right word) everything that’s going on in terms of development in this place called The Thames Gateway. Ten days before the conference the national press had been reacting to the Public Accounts Committee report on the Thames Gateway criticising [...]
Placemaking | Cultural Branding
Posted in 2007, Community, Design, Hemingway Design Project, Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Regeneration on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The past 20 years has seen an exponential growth in cultural tourism and to many, placemaking and the branding of place has become synonymous with its cultural offerings. From historical architectural tourism to Prague and Vienna, to hedonistic cultural tourism to Ibiza, Rimini and Amsterdam, low cost carriers have and are benefiting. The Hemingway family, [...]
