URBED Superhome tours

Charlie Baker has been working with URBED for decades on how to make towns and cities sustainable, there’s 6 billion of us on the planet we can’t all live on smallholdings, we need to make our cities work. In that work we’ve encountered much of how you improve individual houses, but usually it’s talking about new buildings. Given the sheer number Victorian terraces and semi’s we have it seems to be a good question to have some answers to. Can you make them a Victorian house sustainable?

No doubt some of you will wonder whether we did enough, and no doubt tell us we didn’t in some cases, others may be amazed we even tried it and wonder what possessed us to be so daft. We’d like share experiences with others so that they might try some of it too. We don’t have the time as a species to wait for government or business to show us the way, it’s time we proved what democracy meant.

Also we’ve done so much work trying to find things out that it’s a shame if we didn’t make the most of that work. We love being part of a debate about how Manchester’s and the country’s people reduce their ecological footprints at the small scale.

So come on in come and see where we got it completely wrong, where we might have done it better, or ask your own questions about how you might try bits of it.

See the project blog for more information.