Emma Dent Coad
OpinionThe need for politicians who understand the built environment has never been greater
Will the new intake of MPs finally be mobilised and given positions where they can use their knowledge and experience? Emma Dent Coad has her doubts
Opinion‘Could do better’: RIBA conference delivers verdict on Building Safety Act progress
Emma Dent Coad reports from the recent RIBA conference on the Building Safety Act
ReviewReview | Modern Buildings in London by Ian Nairn
Emma Dent Coad welcomes the republication of Nairn’s classic book on modernist London
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ReviewWhy city planning needs the human perspective
Bird droppings and perfume bottles at a lively and provocative Urban Thresholds Conference
ReviewRemaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
“Gentrification is sold as trickle-down – but instead brings wholesale destruction and displacement of communities”