Author Archives: R

The prospect of an expedition to Stevenage stimulated great excitement in the Urban Repairs Club.  This Hertfordshire town, population 84,000, is either maligned or disregarded by most normal civilians, but among a select corps of town planners and urbanists, it … Continue reading →

A gloomy November Saturday morning in London, and a new type of outing for the Urban Repairs Club: a day trip to the Independence Day conference in Frome, Somerset. Organised by The Guardian’s roving reporter John Harris (a Frome resident) … Continue reading →

Expedition No.2 saw the Urban Repairs Club departing the City of Birmingham promising we would return;  six months later, on the summer solstice 2012, we did.  The plan: to check out a few more of the Birmingham Big City Plan’s … Continue reading →

Easter 2012 and Expedition No.3 took the Urban Repairs Club to a selection of Lancashire and Yorkshire Pennine mill towns.  The concept was in two parts: Firstly, to visit the regenerated Pennine valley mill town par excellence, Hebden Bridge – … Continue reading →

Birmingham is well known for having poured investment into its city centre, tackling the legacy of its 1960s comprehensive redevelopment and creating the No.1 business conference and convention city outside London, as well as cementing its position as the undisputed … Continue reading →