All articles by Emma Dent Coad
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ReviewReview | Modern Buildings in London by Ian Nairn
Emma Dent Coad welcomes the republication of Nairn’s classic book on modernist London
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ReviewReview | How we celebrate the coronation: Designs for a new reign
Emma Dent Coad is at first intrigued and then dispirited by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust’s publication
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FeaturesEmma Dent Coad remembers Elain Harwood
Elain Harwood’s huge contribution extended beyond history and conservation to debates around the wider values of the Modern Movement, writes Emma Dent Coad
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ReviewWhy Grenfell: System Failure was not for me
Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicholas Kent’s recent play on the Grenfell Inquiry was well produced but failed to capture the community’s sense of anger, writes Emma Dent Coad
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ReviewReview | 100 20th Century Houses by the Twentieth Century Society
Emma Dent Coad enjoys a book on twentieth-century houses and wonders whether it has lessons to teach us about the current housing crisis
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OpinionPolitics needs specialists from the built environment – and it needs you now!
The Conservatives are asleep at the wheel and lack the skills or desire to address the built environment’s multiple crises, writes Emma Dent Coad
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FeaturesIs this what you mean by transparency on viability, RBKC?
There is a desperate shortage of affordable housing in Kensington and the council is planning to build some beside Trellick Tower. But Emma Dent Coad has some unanswered questions
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OpinionWhat will the Design Museum do for Kensington?
Kensington and Chelsea planning committee councillor Emma Dent Coad says the Design Museum won’t do anything to regenerate Kensington High St
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ReviewGreat Estates: how London’s landowners shape the city
Back-slapping and self worship from the developer sponsors overshadows the real value of this exhibition at the Building Centre
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ReviewWhy city planning needs the human perspective
Bird droppings and perfume bottles at a lively and provocative Urban Thresholds Conference
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ReviewRemaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
“Gentrification is sold as trickle-down – but instead brings wholesale destruction and displacement of communities”