Media
The Launch of the Centre for Suburban Studies - 23 April 2004
- 'Suburb studies finds a home on the college agenda', Lucy Ward, The Guardian, 20 April 2004
- 'On the edge of town', The Guardian leader, 22 April 2004
'Thinking Allowed' - 22 September 2004
On Wednesday 22 September 2004, Dr Vesna Goldsworthy, Centre Director, and two of the participants in the subsequent 'Good Life' Conference, Dr Laura Vaughan, Lecturer in Urban Transformations, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and Dr David Gilbert, Reader in Human Geography, Royal Holloway College, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed.
Here, in a lively public debate, they managed to convince the programme's initially sceptical presenter, Laurie Taylor, of the need for a rigorous intellectual approach to Suburban Studies.
Heritage watchdog plans campaign to save British suburbs - 30 June 2005
Nick Hubble commented for the Guardian on English Heritage's campaign to protect historic suburbs.
- Heritage watchdog plans campaign to save British suburbs, Matt Weaver, Society Guardian, 30 June 2005
Suburban Futures: Participatory Lifestyles - 23 March 2006
To mark the launch of the Centre for Suburban Studies' Suburban Futures Programme. Nick Hubble of the Centre for Suburban Studies, Melissa Mean, Senior Researcher at Demos, and Giles Lanes of Proboscis, the artist-led organisation specialising in social interaction, spoke about new and developing forms of lifestyle and consciousness in the suburbs. This event and the Demos report on suburbia triggered widespread media coverage and a lively public debate on BBC online.
- Save our boring 'burbs, Laura Barton, Guardian, 20 March 2006
- Suburbs 'in need of renovation', BBC, 23 March 2006
Enlightening the Future - July 2006
Nick Hubble contributed to 'Enlightening the Future' a major survey of experts, opinion formers and interesting thinkers published in July by the online journal spiked in association with Orange. The aim of the survey was to identify key questions facing the next generation - those born this year, who will reach the age of 18 in 2024 - and to start a discussion about some possible answers. The survey will roll through the summer, with a summary report published early in August.
Superbia: The Case for Suburbia
- Welcome to superbia, Robert Booth, The Sunday Times, 1 October 2006
- Suburbia is so last season - the new term is Superbia, dahling..., The Surrey Comet, 4 October 2006
Letter to the Guardian - 8 November 2006
Nick Hubble defends suburban development.
- Run of the Mills, The Guardian, 8 November 2006
