New Towns - Helena

As part of Helena's PhD she's been tasked with an investigation into new towns and writing a brief for competition toward creating them.

Although the work was in its early stages the discussions which followed it were interesting

Because I have a distinct interest in sociology topics like new towns and regeneration are particularly appealing to me.

Revelation of the day: the current fashion in housing development is a knee jerk reaction to the modernist Utopian visions of the high density machine like cities. The new ideal has become a detached house with a garden, two cars located in the country with 2.4 children.

P.s If your interested or would like to contribute to her research www.asmallstudio.co.uk is the place to go