The Developer podcast

“Liverpool is undergoing unprecedented growth in investment,” Claire Slinger, Assistant Director for Investment and Development at Liverpool City Council tells The Developer. We learn how the council unlocked plans for its stalled 100 acre Festival Gardens site, and hear about their plans to entice more than 80,000 university and college students to stay in the city after graduation. We also talk about "inclusive growth" and how to bring the public along in a rapidly changing city.

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Dr. Patrice Derrington, who leads the prestigious real estate programme at Columbia University, tells the audience at the Festival of Place why she believes the high-stakes, fraught environment of real estate development needs a rethink, exploding some common myths about what makes places prosper along the way

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Our high streets and city centres are in trouble. How should we remake them? Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance in Manhattan, Rachel Fisher, Deputy Director of Regeneration and Infrastructure at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Patricia Brown, Director of Central and Contributing Editor of The Developer share their views, learnings, and future plans.

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We need a more blended approach to creating mixed communities says Anne Power, Head of LSE Housing and Communities. In her address at the Festival of Place 2019, Power draws from her professional experience working in government policy, from ten years in Thatcher’s government to working under New Labour, to point out some of placemaking's failings. Power has been involved in tackling housing and urban problems since 1965, including working for Martin Luther King’s End Slums campaign in Chicago in 1966.

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Sir Stuart Lipton talks offices and place in conversation with Giles Barrie at the 2019 Festival of Place. One of the first developers to recognise the importance of place in creating large-scale urban developments, Lipton talks about the past, present, planning and future of workplace making.

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Dan Labbad, Chief Executive of Lendlease Europe and future CEO of the Crown Estate talks to Christine Murray on stage at the Festival of Place on what he's learned working for the past 20 years at the centre of heated debate about how we redevelop UK cities: "Your license to operate comes from how you impact on communities."

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How Helical with AHMM transformed an unloved and badly managed British Telecom office complex on Old Street Roundabout into a place. This classic 1960s Modernist campus has seen its former rear carpark transformed into a mews-like street. Across the complex, there are five restaurants, two coffee bars, a hotel, gym and new public spaces. The nature of the businesses based here – Farfetch and WeWork, amongst others – reinforces the decision to combine business with leisure to create a place, rather than office space. The Old Street neighbourhood has the most expensive creative and tech office market per square foot in the world. Less recognised perhaps is that this is still one of the most deprived areas in the country.

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Without the Royal National Institute of Blind People, there’s no chance Countryside would have gained planning for private housing on the green belt; and without Countryside, RNIB would not have been able to replace their dated 1960s facility on site. So began an innovative partnership that sees the design and development of an inclusive enclave from what Cocks descried as “a cold and empty place that felt more like an institution than a community.”

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Landscape architect Will Sandy and Building Centre creative director Vanessa Norwood discuss the impact Extinction Rebellion’s actions are having on the built environment and how we perceive the future of the city. Sandy is creative director at The Edible Bus Stop, a biodiverse design studio whose temporary and permanent spaces can be seen all over London. Norwood is creative director of the Building Centre and was previously Head of Exhibitions at the Architectural Association.

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The Bee Network creates 75 miles of Dutch-style segregated cycle lanes and safe pedestrian crossings, and 1000 miles of walking and cycling routes in Manchester and will be accessible to 92% of the Greater Manchester population, the largest network of its kind in the UK. Nitasha Kapoor met with street design engineer Brian Deegan on designing cycling infrastructure for the northwest.

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