Open City Audio: The Brief - 6 November 2025 (Fran Williams & Dinah Bornat)

Weekly programmes by Open City. Making architecture and cities more open, accessible, and equitable. Today: The Brief. In this episode, technical editor and deputy architecture editor of Architects’ Journal, Fran Williams is joined by Dinah Bornat, an architect and co-founder of ZCD Architects. She's also the author of All to Play For: How to Design Child-Friendly Housing, published by RIBA in February this year. Together they discuss: a new House of Commons report demands a greater role for children in urban design; UK architectural businesses face growing financial strain; London’s affordable housing ratio slips amid a watering down of development guidelines; and the architects picked for the long-awaited pedestrianisation of Oxford Street are revealed.

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