Author Archives: Kenneth Browne

This special Iran Issue focuses on the city of Isfahan

This is not a ‘Guide to Dublin’; nor is it about conservation in the currently accepted meaning of the word. It is about urbanism

A recent report published by the Kent County Council entitled Tenterden Explored is particularly relevant in view of the present York conference on historic towns and cities. Every delegate should study this sensitive evaluation of a town’s architectural and townscape qualities, for it sets a high standard for a local…

This townscape study explores the opportunity to build a new West End on South Bank while giving London the real waterfront it has been missing for the last 200 years

Horseshoed around its mere, Diss is dominated by its church tower. Nothing should be allowed to upset this balance. Inside the town, the remarkable sequence from St. Nicholas’s Street to the Market Place, which falls through a series of squares, is unique

Townscape: the danger is that in all the controversy over a new site for Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market, Covent Garden itself, as a place, may be forgotten. If this happens, its special character could well be erased at one stroke by wholesale redevelopment. The nature of this character…

When a simple moment in a bar can become a powerful spatial parable