Authors Kimberly Amplement and Lucie Laurian compare two examples of retrofitting large greyfield sites …
Large-Scale Urban Retrofits: Cases from Amherst and Paris
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Retrofitting industrial parks: providing homes and neighbourhoods through intensification and diversification
As the race to identify sites for homes accelerates, it is a timely moment to look with fresh eyes at whether these industrial parks could contribute to a solution to the housing crisis.
Suburban Retrofit in Atlanta: Looking for Sustainability in the Sprawl
Back in 2009, Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson’s Retrofitting Suburbia took the sprawling American suburb …
Beyond the Blueprint: How do we Retrofit the Self-Built City in Latin America?
When the Urban Retrofit concept entered the picture, it sparked both curiosity and a sense of uncertainty, raising as many questions as it did possibilities. In recent years, sustainability concepts have travelled quickly across the globe—net-zero, resilience,...
Urban Retrofit – Back to the Future?
January is often a time of reflection, considering the year that is past whilst looking ahead to the next twelve months (and beyond). Perhaps it is the quinquennium nature of the year that has slipped into history - 2025 - that particularly prompts a time of...
Counting carbon, crossing boundaries, navigating ice
In this blog, Associate Prof Hannah Hickman and Prof James White reflect on their recent trip to Trondheim, Norway for the Sustainable Built Environment conference
Urban Retrofit and the Growth Conundrum: Housebuilding under Labour’s Growth Agenda
Labour’s commitment to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the next Parliament (approximately 300,000 per annum) represents a decisive intervention in national housing policy. Achieving this scale of delivery would echo the post-war state-led housebuilding peak of...
Bridging the Implementation Gap: Lessons from Milton Parc and Beyond
Urban Retrofit Research Associate, Dr Ying Wang, considers the challenges associated with delivering urban retrofit outcomes in the built environment and what lessons might be drawn from the project visited on the Urban Retrofit Study Tour of Canadian cities. The...
Planning for affordable housing – and why the tenacity and skills of planners on-the-ground is a crucial piece of the urban retrofit puzzle
Dermot O’Kane, Planning Manager (Plans and Policy) at Belfast City Council, one of Urban Retrofit’s local authority partners, reflects on affordable housing delivery in Toronto and Montreal and the lessons that might be drawn for planners in UK cities thinking about...
Places, people, and possibilities of urban retrofit
Urban Retrofit Research Associate and urban design researcher Dr Jingyi Zhu reflects on the possibilities of urban retrofit and the inspiration she gained from the project study tour of Canadian cities. The Urban Retrofit study tour to Canada proved to be a thrilling...