Health consultant and writer Katy Cooper has written this latest guest blog about her year-long project photographing her neighbourhood. Six months ago today, I was reading on Next City’s website about Chuck Wolf’s book, ‘Seeing the Better City’, which exhorts us to use our cameras to keep an urban diary as a de facto planning
There’s a scene in Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 film Wonderland when Gina McKee’s character Nadia takes the Night Bus home across the Thames from central London. The image of a somewhat pensive young woman alone on the upper deck is exquisitely evocative of a certain time of night, time of life – and time of night
Last week, I participated in a seminar exploring how best to bring together health and planning to ‘improve the quality of lives and places in England’. The focus was on putting theory into practice and/but a lot of the discussion was about language and evidence as barriers to this. In particular – and this is