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Alastair Parvin

Alastair Parvin

Opt-in planning

The future of planning / part 8

Jul 20

An isometric illustration of a neighbourhood of semi detached houses. Two adjacent homes, and one adjacent property to the rear have ‘opted in’, indicated by a tick by those three houses

Jul 20

Alastair Parvin

Performance-based planning

The future of planning / Part 7

Jul 14

Performance-based planning

Jul 14

Alastair Parvin

Community-led planning

The future of planning / Part 6

Jul 12

An illustrative view of a small rural village. It fades between three images. In the first, a site on one side of the village contains only old barns. In the second, a cul-de-sac dormitory neighbourhood of cookie cutter homes labelled with mostly objections. But in the third, an attractive looking neighbourhood with the same number of homes, around a new village green. The school has a new classroom. This is labelled with mostly support.

Jul 12

Alastair Parvin

Land value capture

The future of planning / Part 5

Jul 10

A tram travelling on a set of tracks, surrounded by grass and trees that form a beautiful green corridor through Nantes, France

Jul 10

Alastair Parvin

Rules-based planning

The Future of Planning / Part 4

Jul 9

An isometric illustration of a neighbourhood. The houses are shown as dotted-outline blocks suggesting a set of rules about height and massing. Various labels suggest other kinds of rules about materials, energy performance, and a creche at one corner of a shared greenspace.

Jul 9

Alastair Parvin

Digital Planning

‘The Future of Planning’ / Part 3

Jul 9

Someone is holding a smart phone, using a digital service. On the screen you can see the words ‘It looks like this project does not need planning permission’. It’s part of a service called ‘Find out if you need planning permission’.

Jul 9

Alastair Parvin

Planning is the answer, but what was the question?

‘The Future of Planning’ / Part 2

Jul 8

An aerial view of Letchworth Garden City

Jul 8

Alastair Parvin

The Future of Planning

How we can rewire the planning system for the digital age / Part 1

Jul 8

The Future of Planning

Jul 8

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Open Systems Lab

To redesign ownership, we need a map.

Why we’ve created the Atlas of Ownership — an open, shared map of property rights and obligations; and a library of ideas that could…

May 18, 2023

To redesign ownership, we need a map.

May 18, 2023

Alastair Parvin

How can we make street votes work?

Two ideas for how communities could give themselves permission to develop.

May 15, 2022

A drawing of eight semi-detached houses. Four are green with a tick above them, indicating that they have ‘opted in’.

May 15, 2022

Alastair Parvin

Alastair Parvin

Systems designer. Co-founder Open Systems Lab.

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