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London Society Instagram Takeover
VIDEO | Be Reasonable, Demand the Impossible
London's Housing | Semi-Heaven
Event Report | London's Forgotten Disasters
BOOK REVIEW | Queer Spaces - An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places & Stories
2022 AGM - Monday 4 July
EVENT REPORT | Connecting Young People and the Built Environment
EVENT | From Church to Museum
EVENT REPORT| Car Wars: the trials and tribulations of developing London's subur ...
Kate Macintosh: Architecture for Society
The London Society Trustees
EVENT REPORT | The 2022 Thornton Lecture - Kate Macintosh: Architecture for Soci ...
NEW BOOK | Olympic Park: When Britain Built Something Big
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | Winner of the U18 Category
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | Winner from the Primary School category
EVENT REPORT | London's Alternative Maps
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | Winner, International Category
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | Winner of the Poetry Category
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | Winner of the Open Category and the Overall Winner
EVENT REPORT | Unbuilt - Radical visions of the future
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | The Winners
BOOK REVIEW | Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub
LOVE LETTERS TO LONDON | Shortlists
The 2022 Thornton Lecture - Kate Macintosh: Architecture for Society (on 7 April ...
Semi-Heaven Part I
Unlocking Retrofit: Policy, Planning and Regulation
Products from The London Society
BOOK REVIEW | UNBUILT - Radical visions of the future that never got built
New Website for Built Environment APPG
Announcing The London Society theme for 2022: Connections
BOOK REVIEW | “Migrant City A New History of London” by Panikos Panayi
Become an Ambassador for The London Society
CHANGE: OPINIONS | London, an independent city state?
NEW BOOK | Curious Crouch End
Love Letters to London | Deadline extended
Golden Key Academy | Registrations now open
Gift Memberships | With Gifts worth £26
Love Letters to London | Don Brown
Online or In Person Events: Your opinions
REPORT | The Society visit to Centre Point
Love Letters to London | Simon Pitkeathley
Love Letters to London | Darren Rodwell
OPINION | Design that heals at the London Cancer Hub
REPORT | The Society Visit to 100 Liverpool Street
OPINION | Class is Politics in Architecture
James Raynor | Going for Zero in London
Love Letters to London | Matt Brown
Love Letters to London
Sadiq’s not the only sheriff in town: London’s ever-shifting borough leadership
Event write up: The Museum of the Home
Event Report: The London Ambler Docklands @40 V-Tour, part three.
#Change: People Need Public Art and Public Art Needs People
#Change: Improving London’s community spaces post-pandemic
JOURNAL 2021 | Outer Spaces: the opportunities of outer London
JOURNAL 2021 | Debunking Density and Disease - cities are our best defence again ...
JOURNAL 2021. Floating Points: East London's church on the river
Will Jenrick’s planning reforms deliver “tree-lined streets for all"
London - the greenest city? Discovering the capital's unique habitats.
2021 AGM Report
Leanne Tritton elected as new Chair for The London Society
APPG For London's Planning and Built Environment - AGM Monday 14 June 2021
The London Society AGM 2020 - Agenda, Accounts and Registration
Have your cake and eat it | How historic buildings can lead the fight against cl ...
JOURNAL 2021: Destination Dining - 'Social Soho' and street dining
BOOK REVIEW: The Walker, by Matthew Beaumont
JOURNAL 2021: Sharing is Caring
JOURNAL 2021: From the Archives
JOURNAL 2021: Health Matters
JOURNAL 2021: All Change at Docklands
JOURNAL 2021: A Rebirth for St Paul's
Notice of the Society Annual General Meeting 2021
JOURNAL 2021: Leading Lights - the Illuminated River
CHANGE: The London Society Journal 2021
New Chair for The London Society
CHANGE: OPINION - Beyond Virtue Signalling
The London Society Journal 475 - Pre Publication Offer
The London Society Annual General Meeting 2021
London Society Architecture School 2021
Spreadsheets or climate art? The Young London Print Prize
2021 - a year of change
EVENT CATCH UP: Gin, the Spirit of Westminster
BOOK REVIEW: Red Metropolis by Owen Hatherley
London's Crossroads Moment: Does creativity diminish when the citizens disperse?
Why we need well-designed ‘dense cities’ not overcrowded buildings
Instagram competition: Show us *your* London!
WATCH BACK | The London Society Planning School 2020
WATCH BACK | London's Global Office Economy
Beyond BAME-washing: Meaningful ways to challenge architecture’s diversity probl ...
Falling Giants: Why London must respond to shifting public sentiment
WATCH BACK | The Future of Transport in London Debate
Parliament’s Suburban Taskforce Releases Update Report
Schools fit for the future: 5 areas to focus change
Regeneration: Less controversy more collaboration
BOOK REVIEW: Vic Keegan's Lost London
The Ultimate London Playlist
Andrew Beharrell: Mansions for the Many I
Andrew Beharrell: Mansions for the Many II
CHANGE: OPINIONS. There is no ‘war on cars’ in London, but perhaps it is time fo ...
CHANGE: OPINIONS. There is no ‘war on cars’ in London, but perhaps it is time fo ...
From the Chair: Peter Murray looks forward to February's events
BOOK REVIEW | London's Mayor at 20
#WhenThisIsAllOver
BOOK REVIEW : Underground Cities - New Frontiers in Urban Living
"Change" for 2021
The 2020 Banister Fletcher Lecture. Robert Elms: "cities need slums"
The Low Traffic Neighbourhood Debate
Migrant City: A New History of London
Modernism in Metroland - the Book
NOW ONLINE | Local Heroes
London Living Streets Walking Map
BOOK REVIEW | The Alternative Guide to London Boroughs
Upcoming Event Charges
NOW ONLINE | Faith in the City of London
Towards a Suburban Renaissance | Rob Fiehn
WATCH BACK | The Fabric of London: An introduction to Materials
Tony Elliott
AGM Report
NOW ONLINE | History in the Making
AGM 2020 | 21 July 2020
NOW ONLINE | Samer Bagaeen | 5G: Are We Ready?
London’s Student Housing and Social Equality
New Business and Planning Bill
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Faheem Mohyuddin | Quarantined Sheds
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Sophia Boyd | One Size Fits No One
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Seema Manchanda | Arts, Culture and Lockdown
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Michael Coupe | Post-Covid Changes
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Allotted Space
REPORT | Goodbye Piccadilly
NOW ONLINE | Ike Ijeh | Designing London
Beyond Box-ticking | Jessica Cargill Thompson
Powerful, confident communities | James Goodman and Georgie Burr
Revitalising the concept of 'stewardship' | Will Tanner
Finding Common Ground | Dave Hill
Are You Listening Carefully? | Catherine Greig
Grosvenor Launches 'Positive Space' Community Charter
Now Online | The Fall and Rise of Social Housing
ARCHIVE | Challenges and Changes
ARCHIVE | Spokesmen Speak Out
BOOK REVIEW | Metroburbia by Paul Knox
BOOK REVIEW | Slow Burn City by Rowan Moore
ARCHIVE | The Skate Escape | The Southbank Undercroft
ARCHIVE | Should it stay or should it go?
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Meredith Whitten | London's Green Infrastructure
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Daniel Moylan
ARCHIVE | The birth of the conservation area
BOOK REVIEW | Faith in the City of London by Niki Gorick
ARCHIVE | London's Development Hotspots
Get your copy of The London Society Journal 2020
REPORT | Global Commuting: Lessons for London
Jonathan Manns | Planning for #WhenThisIsAllOver
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Roland Karthaus: institutional architecture in the time of ...
#|WhenThisIsAllOver | Nicholas Falk | URBED
Getting Back to Work | Chris Williamson
ARCHIVE | Embracing Densification
ARCHIVE | Marcus Binney | SAVE Britain's Heritage
#WhenThisIsAllOver | David Morley
ARCHIVE | The London Society Mini-Guide to Conservation Areas
You Might Find This Interesting 08/05/20
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Alistair Barr | Barr Gazetas
ARCHIVE | Will Crossrail Kill Tin Pan Alley?
#WhenThisIsAllOver | How Can Design Respond? | Buckley Gray Yeoman
The Tritton Clock, Brockwell Park
Attending London Society online meetings - beginners' guide
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Neil Bennett | Farrells
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Professor Samer Bagaeen
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Matt Brown | The Londonist
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Peter Murray talks to Robert Elms
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Lord Toby Harris
ARCHIVE | Where the Cutter is King
BOOK REVIEW | House Numbers, by Anton Tantner
#WhenThisIsAllOver (what do we do then?)
London’s Parks: the London Society Ideas Competition
New Publication: Road Rage! – Fifty Years of Plans for Motorways Through Blackhe ...
Maida Vale and the Mansion Block
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Mike Stiff | Stiff + Trevillion
ARCHIVE | Yes In My Back Yard: the case for infill
ARCHIVE | Keep the past part of our future
ARCHIVE | Allard to Vauxhall, the ABC
BOOK REVIEW | Watling Street
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Amy Warner
JOURNAL 2020 | Gorgeous Georgians - Regent Street Past, Present and Future
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Andrew Beharrell | Pollard Thomas Edwards
You Might Find This Interesting - 27/04/2020
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Clare Richards | ft'work
#WhenThisIsAllOver | James Raynor | Grosvenor Britain & Ireland
BOOK REVIEW | The Dark Lantern
Poems of London
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Covid-19 and London's Outside Space
#WhenThisIsAllOver | Chris Williamson | Weston Williamson + Partners
ARCHIVE | Queer Vision: the campaign to save the Royal Vauxhall Tavern
OPINION | Where’s our public space now?
You Might Find This Interesting - 17/04/2020
BOOK REVIEW | The New Urban Crisis
BOOK REVIEW | Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
BOOK REVIEW | London Cycling Guide
OPINION | The London Plan Small Sites' Policy
OPINION | Does London housing work for self-isolation?
You Might Find This Interesting - 10/04/2020
ARCHIVE | The Isokon Flats
ARCHIVE | Sugar Rush: The Trebor Story
London Independent Bookshops with mail order
A London 'Cultural Necklace'
BOOK REVIEW | Architecture Visionaries by Richard Weston
ARCHIVE | Let It Grow
ARCHIVE | Build Your Own London Library
ARCHIVE | Boom Town: previous London population explosions
ARCHIVE | Added Values: Older Women’s Co-Housing
ARCHIVE | A Profile of Jennifer Keesmaat
BOOK REVIEW | Estuary by Rachel Lichtenstein
Indie Presses and Architectural Reading during lockdown
You Might Find this Interesting - 03/04/2020
The Fall and Rise of Social Housing
ARCHIVE | An Interview with Nikos A Salingaros
ARCHIVE | Learning from Camden
BOOK REVIEW | 100 Houses 100 Years
ARCHIVE | Building Blocks of Greatness
JOURNAL 2020 | Doing Urban Regeneration Differently
JOURNAL 2020 | Talking 'bout Regeneration
JOURNAL 2020 | Hiding in Plane Sight
The car is still king for global commuters
You Might Find This Interesting - 27/03/2020
BOOK REVIEW | Designing London's Public Spaces
JOURNAL 2020 | Opinion: London's Public Spaces
JOURNAL 2020 | Don't Lose the Plot
JOURNAL 2020 | Actresses, artists, and aristocrats
The Threat to Victoria Tower Gardens
BOOK REVIEW | A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins
JOURNAL 2020 | 'Out in the Stow' - Walthamstow Market
JOURNAL 2020 | 20 London Films
JOURNAL 2020 | Public Houses: Too early for last orders
BOOK REVIEW | The Painted Hall
JOURNAL 2020 : Chairman's Introduction
Coronavirus - what we're doing, and how you can help
REPORT | Public Spaces for Diverse Places
REPORT | From City to Room: a Manifesto for Better Living
REPORT | Engineering in the City walk
REPORT | Are London's Cycling Policies Working for Everyone
REPORT | How Do We Get Estate Regeneration Right
REPORT | Privately Owned Publicly Accessible Space
BOOK REVIEW | Charles Booth's Poverty Maps
REPORT | London's Great Estates - Covent Garden
Central London Walking Network | 28 November Conference
REPORT | 22 Bishopsgate - behind the scenes tour
REPORT | Alexandra Palace Theatre - Behind the Scenes
London Society Corporate Supporters
REPORT | Jude Kelly and the 2019 Banister Fletcher Lecture
Give a London Society Membership for Christmas
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
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 | High Streets, the Value of the Public
REPORT | Up and Down the City Road
BOOK REVIEW | Inspiration | Provocation
REPORT | 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
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
CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | March
REPORT | Southwark Cathedral: A Candlelit Tour
2019 Journal | Contents
CHAIRMAN'S LETTER | February
Air Pollution Debate | New Speakers Announced
REPORT | Canary Wharf Walk
REPORT | London's Great Green Spaces
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
Banister Fletcher Lecture | Links and Information
REPORT | Saturday Morning Planning School
Nominate London's worst public sculpture
REPORT | Never mind the bollards
REPORT | Planning School: Housing and Density
REPORT | Saturday Planning School: The City
REPORT | The Life and Times of Camden Lock Market
Chairman's Letter | October 2018
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.
Ben Derbyshire to give the 2018 Banister Fletcher Lecture
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
Brexit debate - new speaker added
Favourite London Blogs
The London Society Saturday Planning School 2018
REPORT | London's Great Estates: the Soho Estate
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
REPORT | How We Work: Allies and Morrison
REPORT | Rationalising Land Use Allocation in the Green Belt
REPORT | London in 2050, Planning for the Unknown
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
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
REPORT | How to Plan London
REPORT | 'Open Practice' Studio Egret West
REPORT | Pedways "Streets in the Sky"
REPORT | The Survey of London
Modernism in Metroland
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
Journal of the London Society Online Edition
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
Join the London Society - and save up to £10
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
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
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
REPORT | Chancery Lane Tour
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
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
APPG - what next for social housing after Grenfell?
The London Society Summer Party
Book Review: Hackney Studios
Memories of London
Saturday Morning Architecture School
Journal 471 is now Published
2017 Summer Party
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
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
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
London Forum: 50 years of Conservation Areas
Yes! In My Back Yard.
Planning in London at 100
The Thorney Island Society
APPG AGM 2017
Walk London
BOOK REVIEW | This is London
BOOK REVIEW | The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning
DEBATE | Shaping the Next London Plan
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
Sir Terry Farrell | Shaping London
REPORT | Songs for London
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
Re/Shaping London: Sustainable Growth in West London and Beyond
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
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
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
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
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
