University College London

London United Kingdom

Education

Adaptable Suburbs is a continuation of the Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres project. The current project is an interdisciplinary study, done in collaboration with UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering; The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies; and UCL Department of Anthropology. We are seeking to understand why the networks of street and spaces in twenty of the London suburbs already studied work well. Key techniques include space syntax analysis of street network accessibility; historical analysis of change over time; street-level ethnography, interviewing the people who use and trade in each centre and mapping their spatial networks; and detailed town centr