Below you'll find our latest blog posts - use the menu above (the 'domino' block top right of the screen) to find out details of our forthcoming events, more about the history of the Society, as well as our aims and our membership.
REPORT | The City's Open Spaces
Chairman's Letter - October
Help Save the Cinema Museum
A Blue Plaque for Ronnie Scott
Forty Years On – C20 Society’s Autumn Lecture Series
Help reopen Camley Street Natural Park
Road Rage! How Blackheath Beat the Motorways
REPORT | London's Planned Road
RTPI London Annual Summit 2019
What's your favourite London film?
REPORT | Are London's Cycling Policies Working for Everyone?
Call for contributors
Jude Kelly to give the 2019 Banister Fletcher Lecture
Could you edit our newsletter?
Saturday Morning Planning School 2019
London Society Photo Competition
New membership rates
BOOK REVIEW | London Made Us, by Robert Elms
Motions for AGM
CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | June
The 2019 London Society Summer Party
REPORT | Talk: High Streets, the Value of the Public
REPORT | Walk: Up and Down the City Road
BOOK REVIEW | Inspiration | Provocation
London Society Photo Competition 2019
REPORT | Tour: Behind the Scenes at Broadgate
Urban Tree Festival 2019
2019 AGM
REPORT | Beyond Retail: future functions of the high street
Could you be a London Society Trustee?
Planning in London: April 2019 Edition
BOOK REVIEW | Built
JOURNAL | From the Archives
CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | April
BOOK REVIEW | A Place for All People
JOURNAL | CONSTRUCTING PLACES, BUILDING TRUST
JOURNAL | Beyond Bricks and Mortar
Of Streets and Squares
REPORT | The Development of London's Railways
JOURNAL | ALBERTOPOLIS: LONDON’S ORIGINAL INNOVATION DISTRICT
TALK | Robert Elms: London Made Us
BOOK REVIEW | Cook's Camden
REPORT | The Planning System: Broken Beyond Repair?
JOURNAL | Context Message
JOURNAL | Chairman's Introduction
BOOK REVIEW | Rings Around London: Orbital motorways and the battle for homes be ...
REPORT | Commemorating London
London's least-loved public monument | The Winner
BOOK REVIEW | Municipal Dreams: The rise and fall of council housing
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CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | March
REPORT | Southwark Cathedral: A Candlelit Tour
2019 Journal | Contents
REPORT | Clapham High Street Walk
CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | February
Air Pollution Debate | New Speakers Announced
NEW | The London Society Forum
REPORT | Canary Wharf Walk
REPORT | London's Great Green Spaces
Get two free tickets to a London Society event
Commemorating London | Who should we honour?
Write for Us
Planning in London | Jan-March 2019 Edition
Bad London Sculpture | Voting is now open
E H Smith Architectural Clay
London Society / RTPI London Debate Series
BOOK REVIEW | Bus Fare
The London Society | A new motto for a new year
2019 THEMES | Engineering and Infrastructure
2019 THEMES | London's High Streets
2019 THEMES | Parks and Open Spaces
REPORT | London's Railhead Markets
REPORT | Smithfield Market: Past, Present and Future
Looking ahead to the 2019 programme
REPORT | The Banister Fletcher Lecture 2018
REPORT | Affordable Housing and the Planning System
CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | November
BOOK REVIEW | London Lives
Christmas Gift Memberships
Banister Fletcher Lecture | Links and Information
Win a bottle of champagne
REPORT | Saturday Morning Planning School
Nominate London's worst public sculpture
Planning in London | Issue 107
REPORT | Never mind the bollards
REPORT | Planning School: Housing and Density
Growing up in the Suburbs
REPORT | Saturday Planning School: The City
REPORT | The Life and Times of Camden Lock Market
Help at our events
Chairman's Letter | October 2018
London Society Social Media Feeds
REPORT | The London Brexit Debate
The London Brexit Debate
REPORT | TUC Congress House
REPORT | Planning School 1: The site
REPORT | The Bartlett School of Architecture.
Tutor wanted - post-war housing in London course
Thresholds Film Season
Ben Derbyshire to give the 2018 Banister Fletcher Lecture
Open House Weekend - Volunteers wanted
Fourth speaker joins the London Brexit Debate line up
The myth of the "green and pleasant" Green Belt?
Chairman's Letter - September 2018
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the London Society
Free tickets to London Society events
Conservation and Heritage Symposium, November 2018
Brexit debate - new speaker added
Favourite London Blogs
The London Society Saturday Planning School 2018
REPORT | London's Great Estates: the Soho Estate
The London Brexit Debate
2018 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Urban Regeneration of our Cities
REPORT: Society Tour of the Travellers Club
REPORT: Making London a National Park City
Planning Action, Old Kent Road
REPORT | Camberwell Beauty
Housing Older Londoners
REPORT | Saving London's Heritage
AGM - Save the Date
Become a trustee of the London Society
REPORT | How We Work: Allies and Morrison
REPORT | Rationalising Land Use Allocation in the Green Belt
REPORT | London in 2050, Planning for the Unknown
Free membership to the London Society
BOOK REVIEW | A Place for All People by Richard Rogers
New Corporate Supporter | Almacantar
REPORT | Rationalising Land Use in the Green Belt
REPORT | The Quick Perspective of the Future
London in 2050: full lineup confirmed
Journal of the London Society – contributions sought
London Society Book Group | Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Planning in London | Latest Edition
New Corporate Supporter | Fletcher Priest Architects
Chairman's Report | April
Lynch and Luxemburg on Dwelling and Beauty
REPORT | The Portman Estate
Planning for 2050
London Society Events Programme
REPORT | How to Plan London
REPORT | 'Open Practice' Studio Egret West
The 'On London' Crowdfunding Campaign
REPORT | Pedways "Streets in the Sky"
REPORT | The Survey of London
Modernism in Metroland
World by the Water Exhibition
BOOK REVIEW | Big Capital by Anna Minton
REPORT | Markets, the heart of our great city
REPORT | Walking tour: Market Day in Hipster London
Chairman's report - February
Isn’t it iconic, don't ya think?
A panel discussion with Professor Richard Sennett
REPORT | 'The City beyond the City': London's Public Street Markets
The India Club
Journal of the London Society Online Edition
The London Society London Book Group
Planning in London: January 2018 edition
Journal 472 is now published
Review of the year's events
REPORT | Saturday Morning Planning School 5: The Future of Planning
The "How We Work" series - taking you behind the scenes
REPORT | Discovering Secret London
Chairman's Report December 2017
REPORT | Saturday Morning Planning School 4: Delivering Growth
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London Planning and Development Forum - December meeting
BOOK REVIEW | High Buildings, Low Morals
REPORT | Saturday Morning Planning School 3: Regeneration in London
Report | The Beaumont, Mayfair
The Historical Association tour of Spencer House
Derwent London
REPORT | APPG London's Planning and Built Environment October 2017
REPORT | The 2017 Sir Banister Fletcher Lecture: The Future of the Royal Parks
The London Society is selling out
REPORT | Saturday Planning School 2 – Social/Affordable Housing
Design for Living with the 20th Century Society
Report | Saturday Planning School 1 - the history of planning in London
REPORT | Brixton: From Riots to Recovery
REPORT | Great Estates, the City of London
London Historians - membership offer
REPORT | Chancery Lane Tour
'Our Hut' need volunteers
Planning in London issue 103
'London Symphony' screening at Southwark Cathedral
Matt Brown: Discovering Secret London
REPORT | The History and Future of Tall Buildings
Saturday 'Planning School'
London Planning and Development Forum
REPORT | Society tour of Hampstead Garden Suburb
BE: the journal of the Building Environment Trust
'Stray Voices' - the history of homelessness
Chairman's Letter - September
London Symphony
The work place, past and present: Centre Point to White Collar Factory
Forthcoming events from RIBA Friends
The challenges to London's Royal Parks
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland
Chairman's letter - August
Get involved with The London Society Journal
BOOK REVIEW | Queer City by Peter Ackroyd
APPG REPORT - Social Housing After Grenfell
Minutes from the 2017 AGM
Planning in London - July 2017 edition
APPG - what next for social housing after Grenfell?
The London Society Summer Party
Volunteers Needed
Book Review: Hackney Studios
Memories of London
Saturday Morning Architecture School
Journal 471 is now Published
2017 Summer Party
Get the new London Society Journal
Literary London Society Annual Conference
Annual General Meeting - 26 June 2017
BOOK REVIEW | How to Read London
REPORT | The London Society Green Belt Debate
Victoria Tower Gardens and the Holocaust Memorial
Book review: London's Transport and London Underground
Planning in London Spring 2017
Save the Sunbathers!
House Me London
London History Day
2017 Annual General Meeting - save the date
London Society Bookshop
If London were on fire...
Saturday Architecture School
Debate | Making the Green Belt fit for the 21st Century
Planning for Housing: is it broken?
REPORT: Park Lane Boulevard
WRITING LONDON: what you're reading
REPORT: Behind the Scenes at the Design Museum
Volunteers needed
Free Talk: the GATEway Project
Sell-out events: why you should join the Society
StatueFindr
The Cadogan Estate
The Chelsea Society
Transcending Boundaries: free curator-led tour
London's Great Estates
The Urbanism Awards
REPORT: Smart Technologies
Literary London Society Conference: Call for Papers
London Forum: 50 years of Conservation Areas
Yes! In My Back Yard.
Planning in London at 100
The Thorney Island Society
RIBA Comedy Night
APPG AGM 2017
Walk London
We're looking for a blog editor
BOOK REVIEW | This is London
BOOK REVIEW | The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning
DEBATE | Shaping the Next London Plan
The Chairman's Christmas Message
BOOK REVIEW | Zac versus Sadiq
London Planning and Development Forum Meeting
The AGM of the APPG
REPORT | Modern Craft
REPORT | Restoration of Peckham Rye Station
REPORT | The 2016 Banister Fletcher Lecture
The New Design Museum
The Latest Journal has gone to press
The Thomas Hawksley Lecture
Sir Terry Farrell | Shaping London
REPORT | Songs for London
London Society Survey
BOOK REVIEW | The RIBA Stirling Prize 20
BOOK REVIEW | Curiocity: In Pursuit of London
The London Topographical Society
WHITE PAPER | RE/SHAPING LONDON
Planning in London | October 2016
WALK | Discover St James's
Gift Memberships
John Soane's Museum
Blue Plaque Concerts | Volunteer needed
Re/Shaping London: Sustainable Growth in West London and Beyond
The Hawk Norton Collection of Books on London
CONFERENCE | London's New Politics of Planning
Shape the future of the RIBA Collections
REPORT | Pocket Living: Housing Innovation
Alexandra Palace Fundraising Appeal
2017 European City of the Year Award
EXHIBITION | Ardizzone: A Retrospective
REPORT | "The Ruin of London": Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms
Student Membership
REPORT | Tour of the King's Cross Development
BOOK REVIEW | Big Saves: Heroic Transformations of Great Landmarks
Planning in London | July 2016
TALK | The Government's Estate Strategy
The Future of the West End
Songs for London
REPORT | Subterranean London
Building Greater London - an end to the capital's crisis of affordability
Green Sprawl - our current affection for a preservation myth
London Planning and Development Forum
BOOK REVIEW | The Blue Badge Guide's London Quiz Book
Concert | London City of Song
Forthcoming events
Report | Behind the Scenes at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Banister Fletcher tickets now on general sale
New President-Elect of the RIBA
Chairman's Report | August
Songs for London
Journal Back Issues
Blog editor wanted
REPORT| Peter York, confessions of a London chauvinist
Exhibition | Lenses On A Landscape Genius
Chairman's Report | July
REPORT | Altered Estates - reconciling competing interests in estate regeneratio ...
Annual General Meeting | Minutes
BOOK REVIEW: Up in Smoke by Peter Watts
BOOK REVIEW: The Story of the Tower of London by Tracy Borman
BOOK REVIEW: The New Industrial Revolution, by Peter Marsh
BOOK REVIEW: The Trebor Story, by Matthew Crampton
BOOK REVIEW | Dirty old London, by Lee Jackson
2016 Annual General Meeting
London's Craft Makers
Cycle Confident - encouraging cycling in the capital
The Diamond Jubilee Bridge
Event: The London Library at 175
Exhibition: 'River People'
Sir Terry Farrell to give this year's Banister Fletcher lecture
Journal 469
The London Society Supurbia Bus Tour
Let’s embrace our new London
Superdensity and Street Life
London's Green Belt
Albertopolis - Cultural High Street
The Society visits Balfron Tower
Supurbia
The Society of the future
