New social homes to be exempt from Right to Buy for 35 years dlvr.it/TLhVCV #ukhousing

🚨 New on Substack, my post on the first and last council housing in Bath. 'If your image of Bath is Regency beaux and Jane Austen (or only that), think again.' municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-first-an…

Pleased to have received my copy of 'Dual Cities: Social Housing in London & New York' - a practical guide to the past, present and future of housing in the two cities with a short chapter by me on their parallel and contrasting municipal cultures ... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dual-c…

Congrats to our BSP colleagues on their 2024–25 promotions (effective 01 October 2025)! 🌟 👏 Dr Jonas De Vos 👏 Dr Pablo Sendra 👏 Dr Michael Short 👏 Elena Besussi 👏 Dr Dan Durrant 👏 Dr Chris Foye 👏 Dr Tse-Hui Teh 🔗 Read the announcement: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/…

A special edition of Town & Country Planning journal on Healthy Homes is free to view and download. tcpa.org.uk/resources/the-…

NEW: The government is planning to bring back the supplementary voting system for devolved mayoral elections, meaning people will be able to vote for a first and second preference.

Many of the artists in the Fry Gallery’s collection liked to collect interesting and decorative objects, as if their homes were an extension of their creative practice. July’s Work of the Month is an example of just such a highly-curated personal space, depicting the sitting room

This is "In Custody" by Brynhild Parker from 1932. It is in the collection LeamGallery&Museum. #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup

Today would have been Grace Oscroft's birthday as she was born on 17th July 1903. Here's her painting of "Old Houses, Bow" from 1934. The building with the bay windows is at 223, Bow Road & it is still there to this day: built c.1750! Sadly, this is the only known photo of Grace

1/ I'm excited to have contributed a chapter to this significant new book 'Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being: Modernity, Economic Recovery, and Social Change'. Available at discounted price for pre-order now. Table of contents follows ... routledge.com/Post-War-Publi…

The World Bank has produced a set of case studies to argue that successful public spaces add to a city’s quality of life by improving city walkability, public safety, social inclusion, neighborhood vibrancy, urban health, and citizen well-being: worldbank.org/en/topic/urban…

Scientists just cracked the multiple sclerosis code after decades of searching. Two specific gut bacteria are triggering the disease, and they've proven it using identical twins and mice. This changes everything we know about MS:

'Oxford Circus Underground Station' (1905) by Maxwell Ashby Armfield (Government Art Collection)

'Saturday', Peckham (1925) by John M Paramor (Southwark Heritage Centre)

💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000. The studio will now be restored, creating a new venue to inspire creative arts in the Scottish Borders,

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The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day 106 years ago. 176,000 council homes were built under its terms and its standard of high quality housing set a benchmark for decades to come (Examples from Poplar, Newcastle, Lancaster and Winchester)

Yesterday I published a comprehensive update of the Commons Library briefing paper on the relationship between church and state in the United Kingdom. Lots more detail on the Churches of England and Scotland including the process of appointing a new Archbishop of Canterbury 1/2

Congratulations to @ayonadatta and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics

RIP Morecambe FC, 1920-2025. Today the club officially ran out of funds. There is no indication that a sale will be completed. In time, the club will be declared bankrupt. Our thoughts go out to the staff, supporters and anyone involved with Morecambe - both the club and