Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

London, United Kingdom. muf architecture/art designed a play street for people of all ages near Clissold Park, as part of the wider estate regeneration project.

London, United Kingdom. Park Street (Parkway) ladies’ toilets, Camden - public facilities which tell the story of women’s campaign for inclusive toilets.

London, United Kingdom. Vanbrugh Park Estate by Chamberlin Powell & Bon is a modernist development by the architects of the Barbican and Golden Lane, which prioritises communal external spaces, complete with outdoor laundry drying infrastructure.

Brest, Belarus. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated in the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. This viewpoint examines how registered prostitutes resisted the regulation of prostitution and sought interaction with the authorities to achieve specific objectives. It focuses on a letter penned by 16 registered prostitutes living in Brest (now Belarus) in 1908 to examine everyday experiences of state regulation.

London, United Kingdom. Waterloo Bridge, also known as ‘The Ladies’ Bridge,’ tells the recently uncovered story of women construction workers who built it during the WWII labour shortages.

London, United Kingdom. South East London’s beacon on a hill overlooking the city, the project is a triumph of council housing designed by Kate Mackintosh when she was only 26 and employed by Southwark Council.

London, United Kingdom. The nineteenth-century history of this now-famous medical institution includes stories of cancers cured with "animal magnetism"

London, United Kingdom. In this Placecloud essay, I take listeners to Battersea Park, a name synonymous with the rescue of cats and dogs. Between the Old English Garden and the bank of the River Thames, there is a statue of a dog. This statue was erected in the park in 1985, commissioned by British anti-vivisection groups, but to meet the dog it depicts, we have to look back over a century. This essay, and the dog it is about, explore Britain as a nation of animal lovers and shows how urban space can become a landscape where we fight for others, including other animals.

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. The Victorian designer, writer, and Socialist William Morris didn't love London, but he did love his home here on the Hammersmith Embankment.

Melbourne, Australia. St Patrick's Hall was home to the first Legislative Assembly in Victoria, but it also has an important role in the story of Irish community life in Melbourne.