06 Mar Community at its best at Ruddington Village Market
Last month we visited Ruddington, a large village five miles from Nottingham with a host of indie shops, local history museums and a country park. In 2019, the village launched...
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Place talking points
Our founder, Diane Cunningham, discusses issues affecting high streets, markets, town centres and small businesses. We love exploring new places and revisiting old ones to see the changes.
Here you can find interviews with clients and colleagues, events and research. There may also be observations from what we have learnt on projects and when out and about.
30 Jan Looking back and predictions for the future from BDO’s annual retail trading seminar
This week I attended BDO’s annual retail trading seminar for the first time. Presented by retail partner, Sophie Michael and Richard Lim of Retail Economics, the seminar took an in-depth...
20 Dec The Assembly Line annual round up
2019 has been a busy year at the Assembly Line. We have worked on a number of interesting and diverse projects and we are now planning ahead for 2020.We have...
03 Dec The changing face of high streets at Hawkins Brown
Hawkins Brown, an international practice of architects, interior designers, urban designers and researchers invited The Assembly Line in last month to talk about ‘The role of markets and the changing...
10 Oct A place management tour of the north west
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the north west this year. I know the region well having grown up there and worked in Manchester early in my career....
27 Aug Launch of the new placemaking book ‘our city’
Last month, I attended a placemaking regeneration event and book launch titled: ‘Our city: countering exclusion by designing cities for all’ in London.The event was held to provoke a discussion...