On 28th and 29th November 2022, the UG real estate cohort will be visiting up to 6 Great estates of London.
London a series of villages
London’s ‘little towns’ – its distinctive neighbourhoods and urban villages have
made it unique among world cities. The sequences of streets, squares, parks, piazzas and gardens created by the estates, old and new, great and small, have evolved to create an enduring urban framework that supports and forms the backdrop to the economic, cultural and social life of the capital.
The estates’ approach to making attractive places in which to live and work
and, perhaps most importantly, in maintaining and adapting them as such over
a long period has, in the past decade and more, been taken up by new projects
seeking to regenerate large areas of the city.
Where others come and go, the estates, with a commitment to long-term success, are stewards of a large part of London,but they have also shown a remarkable ability to evolve and innovate in one of the world’s fastest-changing cities. The principles of placemaking that they have developed from centuries of expertise have proved highly influential.
Watch the Great Estates You tube video here
School of the Built Environment Oxford Brookes 