I'm developing content here to support the Connections blog, which is mainly about developments in the City of London, where I live, and neighbouring Clerkenwell. Currently here:

I've gathered together blog posts and reports about the City of London's flagship programme to attract visitors to the Square Mile:

• Destination City information pages - resources, questions and some answers about the City's flagship programme.
• Proposal: Why we need a Guide to Culture Mile and Destination City - see below
• Latest: A reset for Destination City as Liveable City may be on the way

A Guide for Culture Mile - and Destination City
Plans to engage residents in Destination City highlight the need for accessible information about the Corporation’s flagship programme, and a main area for cultural development. I suggest we need a Guide to what’s happening and what’s planned, with councillors taking a lead in its development.

Below is a presentation about Destination City, given to the City's Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee in July 2023. Click/touch into the presentation to scroll through.

More on the Resources page and others with blog posts, questions, and information about getting involved.

Culture Mile is the cultural district in the north west of the City of London. It includes the Barbican Arts Centre, and is also the main resident area in the Square Mile, with the Barbican and Golden Lane Estates. The Museum of London is currently developing a new home in West Smithfield.

• Index
• Blog posts
• Look and Feel Strategy
• Latest: New study to design streets and spaces in Culture Mile raises issues of resident engagement

Community information hub

The Barbican Centre Communities and Neighbourhoods team commissioned me to develop ideas for a community information hub in 2022 on the ground floor of the Centre. Plans were dropped when members of the team left, but then picked up by Barbican Library.

• Blog posts
• Original proposals for a community information hub - slides
• Report to the Barbican Centre Communities and Neighbourhoods team on the hub ###Bartholomew Fair
• Index
• Bartholomew Fair locations - a map and information sheets about Bartholomew Fair 2023
• More here about Bartholomew Fair and Cloth Fair

Clerkenwell

Articles, blog posts about Clerkenwell and its radical history. Index here

Bartholomew Fair

How Bartholomew Fair was re-staged in 2023 across the Square Mile, and in its historic location of Smithfield. Index here

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