Here is an interesting interview from the Urban Omnibus about expanding the concept of mapping to give a spatial and visual representation to social, political and technological processes.

http://urbanomnibus.net/2012/02/mapping-as-a-spatial-political-and-environmental-practice/

A new document was launched yesterday called Trees in the Townscape.  There are 5 Bristol case studies into it, one of which is about the work on Greater Bristol Bus Network (GBBN) which includes images of Whiteladies Road and Hotwells.  The tree replacement strategy and Tree Bristol are also highlighted with photos of recent tree planting in Victoria Park.



Norman Baker MP gave a video key note to launch the document…

Go to:- http://www.pps.org/ten-great-movies-for-placemakers/ - and see one person's selection of films that illustrate Placemaking principles quite beautifully.

Any suggestions of films that show off placemaking in Bristol?

Stephen

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/06/how-urban-design-affects-ethnic-or-religious-tensions/2252/

Dr. Ralf Brand and Dr. Sara Fregonese have studied how culturally ignorant design has intensified violence in areas of religious and ethnic division, while more sensitive plans have peacefully brought people from different backgrounds together.…

As part of the Big Green Week, Fiona Reynolds, Director of the National Trust and Landscape Designer, Dan Pearson, talked about children and adults spending less time outdoors.  Why does this matter to our health and wellbeing?

The initial findings in the National Trust report "Natural Childhood" shows that:

• Fewer than 10% of children play in wild places
• Three times as many children are taken to hospital having fallen out of bed than falling out of a…

The Centre public realm element of the Bus Rapid Transit - North Fringe to Hengrove proposals is out for public consultation until 13…

Have your say on the development

Trinity Community Arts are working on plans to carry out essential redevelopment works to the Trinity Centre. The works will allow us to provide an increased range of services, making the space more accessible, affordable and appropriate for our diverse communities.

We are seeking grant funding to invest in the development of upstairs hall space, including…

The new Floating Garden on the boat moored near Castle Park is taking shape.  The compost has been delivered and placed into the new planting beds today, in readiness for the 'ballast' planting.

See how it's progressing on these photos.

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If you've passed the front of Colston Hall today you will have seen a couple of dozen shopping trollies each containing an apple tree, intersperesed with deck-chairs. This is the latest pop-up to appear in the city, greening city streets and creating chilled out (uncommercialised) spaces to enjoy the city. Its part of the Big Green Week programme of events. Keep a look out for it as the Mobile Forest is wheeled to different locations during the festival…

Article in the Guardian's Local Government Network http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2012/jun/11/working-lives-archaeological-officer that covers Design Bristol and our crowd sourcing approach with Know Your Place.

If you were lucky enough to be in Corn Street yesterday, it would be great if you could share your photos on Design Bristol. For those that missed it, I've uploaded some of my photos. The entire street was closed to traffic allowing the market to extend down to The Centre and onto the harbour area. Local food producers, vintage clothes, booksellers and craft stalls transformed Corn Street and some of its side streets. Street musicians and performers further added to the street animation.…

The first programme in the new series revisiting Charles Booths 1886 maps of London began last night.  Starting with Deptford High Street it highlights the changes from the social changes in Victorian London, through the slum clearance of the '60s to the market and shopping street it is today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/06/secret-history-of-our-streets.shtml

This weeks image has been submitted to the site by Ian Haddrell ahead of our Know Your Lockleaze event on June 19th http://www.bristol.ac.uk/public-engagement/events/2012/90.html. It shows Lockleaze Secondary School nearing completion in 1954.…

Friends of mine have just got back from Madrid and were raving about the new Madrid Rio park. More than six miles long, it transforms a formerly neglected area in the middle of Spain’s capital. Its creation, in four years, atop a complex network of tunnels dug to bury an intrusive highway, also rejuvenates a long-lost stretch of the Manzanares River, and in so doing knits together neighborhoods that the highway had cut off from the city center.…