LONDON SOCIETY FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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LONDON ICON SERIES: THE BROMPTON FOLDING BIKE
Thursday, 23 March
The Brompton Folding Bike is not only an iconic piece of British design it is also manufactured in London. This is your chance to hear Andrew Ritchie, who in 1975, created prototypes of the bikes in his bedroom in South Kensington, talk about the design, and how the business grew to be producing 44,000 of the handmade bikes every year.
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WHAT IS DRIVING CHANGE IN OUTER LONDON?
Thursday, 20 April
Against a background of discussions of suburban decline in Outer London, some areas have seen "upscaling", where higher socio-economic groups replace lower ones. Is this a form of 'gentrification' ask Alan Mace (LSE) and Antoine Paccoud (LSE Visiting Fellow), and what is causing it to happen?
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LONDON'S GREAT ESTATES:
EVOLVING MAYFAIR & BELGRAVIA TOGETHER
Tuesday, 6 June
With London's rapid growth, Grosvenor Executive Director, Will Bax describes how the estate wants Mayfair and Belgravia to work harder for its communities and all Londoners by adapting - with better streets, greener spaces and more active and enterprising places that appeal to the many, not just to the few. READ ON...
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NOTTING HILL HISTORIC PUB CRAWL
Tuesday, 28 March
Pub historian Geoff Brandwood leads a tour of three very different pubs, all of which retain interiors of interest. Starting at the Elgin, Ladbroke Grove, which has some fine features from the golden age of pub-building, and including the Earl of Lonsdale, Westbourne Grove which has undergone a remarkable reVictorianisation.
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LONDON ICON SERIES:
LONDON CABS - PAINT IT BLACK
Thursday, 25 May
Stephen Bayley's talk promises to be more iconoclastic than celebratory. As he explains: Charles Eames said the London black cab was the greatest ever design. One of his more acid contemporaries said that, to an American, for a design to be great, it had to be both European and useless. Both these observations are true. READ ON...
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LONDON ICON SERIES:
ROUTEMASTER - A MARRIAGE MADE IN LONDON
Thursday, 22 June
Join Jonathan Glancey for a celebration of the beloved Routemaster! Designed and made in London by Londoners for London, the Routemaster bus was a marriage of skills that served the city for half a century. It has yet to be bettered.
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04 MAY: Debate - 'A Better Green Belt?' - Chaired by Paul Finch, Speakers; Richard Upton (U+I plc), Richard Knox Johnston(London Green Belt Council), John Myers (London YIMBI), Alice Roberts (CPRE)
15 JUN: Tour of Camden's, The Interchange shared workspace
04 JUL: London Great Estates: the Cadogan Estate - with Chief Executive Hugh Seaborn
20 JUL: Panel Discussion - 50 years of London's Conservation Areas - Rosemarie MacQueen (Historic England Commissioner), Frank Kelsall (The Architectural History Practice), Paul Velluet, William Filmer-Sankey (Alan Baxter Ltd)
Throughout MAY and JUN we will be holding Saturday Morning Architecture Schools, these will cover the evolution of London's architecture.
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