MASTER-PLANNING THE CITY

12/31/21 • 54 min

In the Grimshaw Podcast Cities series we have interviewed city-shapers of all kind: architects and urban designers, transport specialists, cultural entrepreneurs, developers, and city leaders. Our series ends the year with that cornerstone of urban development – masterplanning. And who better to discuss this with than Selina Mason? Selina is a masterplanner and architect with extensive experience of delivering complex urban masterplans. She is responsible for driving high quality design and masterplanning across the UK and Europe in the urban regeneration portfolio of major international developer Lendlease, amounting to £30bn end value.

Selina is a recognised leader in urban spatial planning and design leadership. She is a UK Design Council Ambassador and has recently been appointed by the Government to the Urban Centre Recovery Task Force. She is the Chair of the Quality Review Panel of Havering Council, a fast growing part of the Thames Gateway on the east side of London, and is a member of several other Design Review panels. She also represents the Royal Institute of British Architects on the Highways England’s Strategic Design Panel where she champions investment in better quality infrastructure.

Before joining Lendlease in 2017, Selina led a range of city-shaping regeneration masterplans including the new UCL campus at Stratford, a prime legacy of the 2012 Olympics in the area. Until 2014 she was indeed responsible for the delivery of the London 2012 Masterplan and the design and delivery of the post-Games Transformation Masterplan for the Olympic Delivery Authority and subsequently the London Legacy Development Corporation. And before all this, she was Director of Architecture and Design Review at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) until 2007: CABE’s work and approach has been hugely influential internationally. Selina is currently leading on one of the most important urban regeneration projects in Europe, the 50-50 joint venture with London’s oldest housing charity Peabody to deliver more than 11,000 homes in Thamesmead in south-east London.

With this last podcast of 2021, we encourage you to join us in 2022 for the next podcast series: The Culture Series. We look forward to a new year of remarkable and sometimes provocative conversations with those shaping the culture, both high and low, of our cities across the globe.

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Lance was a key member of the innovative ‘New Housing New York Legacy Project’ competi[1]tion which appointed Grimshaw to design the award-winning affordable housing project, Via Verde, in the South Bronx, for the ethical developer Jonathan Rose, who featured in the very first podcast of this Cities series.

Lance is passionate about public realm and resilience and talks to Tim about his role in Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. They discuss cities now and post COVID-19 and the trajectory at which cities are now moving as a result of the pandemic.

Tim and Lance reflect on the amazing capacity that cities have to replenish themselves, hypothesizing about how cities will be redesigned to attract people back into CBDs through the use of vibrant streetscapes, integrated transport options and the possibility of repurposed commercial spaces into residential dwellings.

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