TBT City Makers Series: Designing New Civic Spaces

The Temple Bar Trust’s City Makers series explores aspects of city planning, architecture and placemaking by key architects working in the City of London and historians engaged with its varied and dramatic stresses and strains. Our timeframe embraces a number of centuries, recent decades and includes teams working in significant ways to forge the future public design quality of the City in the 2020s.

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Whilst the relatively quick-fix qualities of public realm improvements have preoccupied designers, urbanists and architects, ultimately these more transient transformations, although important, are secondary to establishing the uses and buildings that define civic space.

Using precedents and projects, architect Eric Parry RA, founder of Eric Parry Architects  will argue in his talk for the need for proactive planning policies in order to set more ambitious agendas for the creative ordering and reordering of cities. It is his firm belief that thinking about the narrative of governance, the performative, law and order, as well as the market driven demand for commercial and dwelling uses, is an essential component of design for cities.

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