Climax City

4.The Subtle Art of Masterplanning

400m Public Realm

Brighton: This this plan shows a transept through Brighton from The Lanes (1) that form its medieval core to the grand terraces of its Regency expansion (2) and the later, more workaday, Victorian terraced which are confusingly known as The Laines (3). The New England Quarter site is at the top of the plan (4).

It was in 1999 that I (DR) became a masterplanner almost by mistake. URBED, the practice where I, and later Shruti, worked had until that point been involved in urban regeneration. We had done strategies for municipalities across the UK, often drawing plans and making proposals, ...