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As part of the Guardian's series on the Housing Crisis, a letter from URBED founding director Nicholas Falk, was published on Thursday 5th May. You can see Nicholas' full letter via the link on the right. 

In it he suggests that the threat to our countryside from new housing is made worse by a failure to concentrate new development around key transport nodes. Echoing the sentiments of our Wolfson prize winning essay, Nicholas calls for a commission to allocate the land for new garden cities, rather than relying on ad hoc exceptions. 

Marianne will be leading a Jane's Walk on Saturday 7th May in Liverpool exploring the Granby 4 Streets. Jane’s Walks are free, locally organized walking tours, in which people get together to explore, talk about and celebrate their neighbourhoods. Where more traditional tours are a bit like walking lectures, a Jane’s Walk is more of a walking conversation. Leaders share their knowledge, but also encourage discussion and participation among the walkers.

Following the devastating fire at the end of 2015, we are delighted that the rebuild of Toxteth Food Central will be starting soon.

Squash Nutrition are holding an event to celebrate this at 4.30 on Sunday 20th March at John Archer Hall.

The Toxteth Food Central Team will be gathered to share plans and update on building schedules. Marianne and members of the Community Design Team will be leading the talk and we would love to see you there.

To book your free place and to find out more about this event please follow the link on the right. 

Our Wolfson Economics Prize winning essay, Uxcester Garden City, will be featured again at the upcoming 'Beyond the Green Belt' exhibition, curated by The Built Environment Trust and the Landscape Institute. The exhibition will run from the 16th March to the 27th April 2016 at The Building Centre on Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT. 

Back in November David Rudlin took part in a roundtable event, leading to a report available via the link on the right. Videos are also available - you can spot David in the first one. 

Origin brought together the most influential thought leaders in the UK housing industry to discuss the direction that it is taking, while asking 'where will the housing industry really be in 2020?'

Our friend and ex-URBED employee Emily Crompton is now working on developing community led projects for older people in Hulme & Moss Side. There will be a community launch event on Thursday 25th February between 11:30am and 2pm. 

We've been involved with igloo's project at 400 Caledonian Road since the beginning, assessing the scheme against igloo's footprint policy and more recently developing home user guides for the new residents. 

This time lapse video shows the site as it was, and now at completion. This was a challenging site consisting of delapidated buildings to the rear and a Victorian house in need of renovation fronting Caledonian Road. Added to this the team were dealing with the constraints associated with building over the channel tunnel and next to the overground line.