PlaceLabs Podcast
PlaceLabs aim to explore Place from a wide variety of angles and to facilitate cross-pollination within the built environment industry. In the PlaceLabs Podcast, which accompanies our quarterly events, we discuss the challenges facing future cities. Interviewing thought-provoking speakers, we seek to offer inspiration and solutions to professionals as well as those interested in urbanism.
PlaceLabs Podcast
Hyper Local - EXTRA - With Prof Peter Rees
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PlaceLabs Collective
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Season 1
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Episode 5
In this, our first EXTRA session, we continue to explore the theme of “Hyperlocal” with Prof Peter Rees.
Peter was the Chief Planning Officer for the City of London for nearly 30 years. During his tenure, he oversaw the transformation of the Square Mile -- both in its physical appearance, with the Eastern Cluster of skyscrapers redefining the skyline, and in its appeal to attract hard-working and hard-playing talent. Peter has long been an advocate of local places and, now a Professor of Places and City Planning at UCL’s Bartlett School in London, his basic philosophy is “make better places and stay in them.”
In our interview, we address his conception of the local, who makes places (“people, not planners or architects, make places”) and how we can begin to foster our connections with our local (“travel less and more meaningfully”, “contribute to, rather than only consume, place”).