Author Archives for Isabel Deakin

Interconnected Identity

June 8, 2021 11:04 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

“There are two ways to shun alien others: flee them or isolate them. Each way... View Article

What about Joy?

June 3, 2021 10:17 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

How movement and placing people first could save our relationship with our cities? What is... View Article

Reclaimed Water Landscape

November 12, 2020 11:12 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 20: Edris Goubin L’Azou, Georgios Kazantzis, Gabriele Padriezaite, Perla Llosa Hernandez, Moa Maurex, Emanuela... View Article

Urban Green Path

November 12, 2020 11:09 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 19: Axel Borel, Sonia Gerawat, Lea Alquiroz, Helena Wagg, Inness Yeoman

The Community Dome

November 12, 2020 11:06 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 17: Liam Davies, Ciara Dineen, Jemima Harold-Sodipo, Robert ForsythLeeds, Andrew Harvey, Nikki Khosrowpour

Re-used Partick

November 12, 2020 11:03 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 16: Lillianne Rokstad, Benjamin Rowley, Ciara Farmer, Sam Gordons, Stavroula Kalapotharakou

Urban Bothies

November 12, 2020 11:01 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 15: Aleksandra Czekaj, Tess Hillan, Natalia Kowalska, Philip Elverson, Tze June Goh, Rhiannon James

Algae Bloom

November 12, 2020 10:59 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 14: Emily Cronin, Gabriella Togni, Samuel Us, Biaotong Geng, Karima H Hossny, Matthew King

Wild Streets with a Green History

November 12, 2020 10:56 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 13: Emma Hargreaves, Yichen Li, Lindsay Parkinson, Joseph Elbourn, Sofi Håkansson, Mstislav Kochkin

Glasgow Refill

November 12, 2020 10:53 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 12: Harry Lindsey, Yik Yeong Look, Geraldine Reid, Sophie Emerson, Laura G Scalco, Kim... View Article

Merchant City Reclaimed

November 12, 2020 10:51 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 11: Mate Gehberger, Joanne Hall, Eryn Mcquillian, Daumantas Patamsis, Semirat Saidi, Carl Jonsson

Glasgow Green Flume Machine

November 12, 2020 10:24 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 10: Samuel Alexander, Alexander Mackay, Divya Shah, Tom Ashurst, Chothia Umar, Dragan Maria

Inside Weir Pumps: An Interview

November 12, 2020 10:10 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Currently named SPX Flow, Weir Pump Factory is situated in Cathcart along the White Cart... View Article

Glasgow Urban Wetlands

November 12, 2020 9:13 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 23: Rebecca Robertson, Nichole-Ann Samson, Ben Scragg, Maria Loizou, Cameron Mcallister, Sissy O’Neill Glasgow... View Article

Glasgow Earthworms

November 12, 2020 9:09 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 25: Celine Black, Siripat Rojnirun, Rihards Saknitis, Gracjan Labowicz, Chloe Mackinnon, Lindsey Menzies

Cleaning the Clyde

November 12, 2020 9:04 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 22: Ranee Lactao, William Ramsay, Callum Gillespie, Renas Osman, Kacper Ryske, Jay Lee

Glasgow Jungle

November 12, 2020 9:01 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 3: Midas Betterton, Sophie Curran, Matthew Joyce, Alexandra Baidac, Alyesha Choudhury, Lewis Duncanson

Floating Islands

November 12, 2020 8:58 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 24: Annie Higham, Kamila Mamatow, Isla Robinson, Jenni Smith, Yuk Ying Tsoi, Emily Webb

The Common Thread

November 12, 2020 8:53 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Women made up the majority of the work-force of Glasgow’s prosperous and pioneering textile industry.... View Article

Glasgow Makes Rain

November 12, 2020 8:30 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Group 26: Chloe Spiess, Craig Stephens, Ingrid Wennemo, Karlis Kukainis, Cheuk Ming Le, Zachary Macpherson... View Article

The Plan of a City

November 12, 2020 7:55 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Castlemilk was envisaged as independent township where people would both live and work, however the... View Article

Derelict Lands, Environment and Glasgow effect

November 12, 2020 12:53 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The concept of “Glasgow Effect” refers to the low life expectancy and poor health of... View Article

Glasgow’s Windows

November 12, 2020 12:51 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

A collection of sketch axonometric studies of bay and corner windows found in Glasgow. The... View Article

Between Form and Life

November 12, 2020 12:48 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The main consideration relating to the form would be thinking about its permanence in urban... View Article

Derelict lands, Environment and Glasgow effect

November 12, 2020 12:44 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The Glasgow effect is a concept that refers to the quality of life of people... View Article

Access to Nature

November 12, 2020 12:41 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The COVID-19 pandemic has made many of us realise the importance of outdoors spacesand how... View Article

The Weathering City

November 12, 2020 12:38 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

This study deducted in the area of Charring Cross and Anderson, explores how the various... View Article

Glasgow Aqueducts

November 12, 2020 12:33 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Glasgow was rapidly growing in the early 19th century due to the industrial revolution. It... View Article

Ethical Choices in the City

November 12, 2020 12:30 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

This study focuses on social attitudes towards the sustainability and the impact of the environment... View Article

Scotland’s Most Polluted Street

November 12, 2020 12:22 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Despite having one of the lowest levels of car ownership in Britain, the Glasgow Urban... View Article

Subway Stalking

November 12, 2020 12:18 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

What makes a place feel safe, scary, or even threatening? Glasgow’s distinctive passageways: tenement closes,... View Article

Derelict Lands, Environment and Glasgow Effect

November 12, 2020 12:15 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The term ‘Glasgow Effect’ has been coined in recent years to describe the high levels... View Article

Glasgow In Spectrum

November 12, 2020 12:15 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Concealed within the barriers of the M8, North Clyde train line, and the Clyde, patterns... View Article

Maryhill Cross/Kelvin Cross

November 12, 2020 12:10 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

In 1790, the Kelvin Aqueduct was built, a 120m long structure stretching across the banks... View Article

Remnants, Community, Place

November 12, 2020 11:52 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Laurieston’s fabric has changed dramatically over the last century. Minutes from the Glasgow’s economic centre... View Article

The Vanishing Industry: An analysis of Port Dundas and its historical economic prevalence and its decline

November 12, 2020 11:49 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

This image conveys the pattern of growth and decline in the industrial economy of Port... View Article

Non-human habitants in Glasgow

November 12, 2020 11:46 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Glasgow is a city for human habitation but also a landscape for non-human species. Due... View Article

Potential of the City Wide Transformation of the Post-industrial Waste-land Sites

November 12, 2020 11:39 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Vacant & Derelict Land One of the effects of the rapid de-industrialization that Glasgow was... View Article

Bridging The Canals of Glasgow

November 12, 2020 11:33 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

In the area of one of the most historically under-supported areas of Glasgow, there is... View Article

Bridging Gaps

November 12, 2020 11:29 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

As well as providing opportunities, cities do also have a high concentration of unemployment, poverty... View Article

Development by Ward

November 12, 2020 11:25 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Tasked to focus on economics within the city of Glasgow I knew from various research... View Article

Industry in the City

November 12, 2020 11:21 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

For centuries, industry has defined the way that the city relates to its landscape, and... View Article

Profits Before Play

November 12, 2020 11:17 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

For a child the playground is part of everyday life. Playing is more than second... View Article

Social Capital & Social Connections

November 12, 2020 11:13 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

“Social capital refers to connections among individuals, social networks and the norms of reciprocity and... View Article

Absolute Centrality

November 12, 2020 11:05 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

In a city of 175 square kilometres and 600 000 inhabitants, the question of economic and... View Article

The Glasgow Style: Design in its DNA – Arts for a Wealthy City

November 12, 2020 10:57 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

In the late 1800s, the City of Glasgow was a bustling metropolis thriving on innovation... View Article

Toward a New Future for Glasgow’s Industrial Relics

November 12, 2020 10:53 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

“People would rather go hungry than suffer the indignity of going to a food bank”... View Article

Spaces of Migration: An Inventory of Small-Scale Food Establishments 1

November 11, 2020 11:39 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

For over 200 years, Glasgow has hosted a diverse range of people with different ethnic... View Article

Spaces of Migration: An Inventory of Small-Scale Food Establishments 2

November 11, 2020 11:27 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

For over 200 years, Glasgow has hosted a diverse range of people with different ethnic... View Article

Living Fossils

November 11, 2020 11:16 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Glasgow’s industrial cores remained at the north, east and south extremities, dissipating towards the edges... View Article

The Landscape and its People

November 9, 2020 12:18 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Glasgow hosts a variety of different social and economical conditions. Geographical, topographical and climactic conditions... View Article

Spaces of Migration: An Inventory of Small-Scale Food Establishments 3

November 7, 2020 12:29 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

For over 200 years, Glasgow has hosted a diverse range of people with different ethnic... View Article

Who Needs To Leave the House Anyway? Digitally Exploring Glasgow’s Waterways

November 7, 2020 11:54 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The investigation digitally explores the landscape surrounding the key watercourses of the Glasgow drainage basin.... View Article

The Deconstruction of Gorbals Cross

November 7, 2020 11:36 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The Gorbals today sit on the south bank of the River Clyde and was originally... View Article

Where Does Glasgow Stop?

November 7, 2020 11:31 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Since the Industrial Revolution, Glasgow’s size has boomed. Until the mid-19th century, the city was... View Article

Missing Glasgow, Missing Buildings

November 7, 2020 11:26 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The investigation is focusing on the small part of the area in Glasgow, which had... View Article

“Not for Free” Islands

November 7, 2020 11:24 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

This ‘Emmental map’ of Glasgow shows areas within the city, where people don’t have any... View Article

Movement of Different Species in Glasgow

November 7, 2020 11:22 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Rewilding has been the hot topic globally. However, rewilding the city could mean the coexistence... View Article

Where Do We Linger?

November 7, 2020 11:19 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

My investigation aims to look at the movement of people in Glasgow. I have completed... View Article

Parkhead Cross

November 7, 2020 11:17 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Glasgow is a city that has developed around its crosses, both cartographically and socially. Key... View Article

The Rise of the Car in Glasgow’s Crosses

November 7, 2020 11:10 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

I have investigated the streetscape of Glasgow’s crosses throughout history to analyze the way they... View Article

Inside the Threshold

November 7, 2020 11:07 am Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Glasgow is a city divided by boundaries, exemplified by the superposition of the M8 motorway... View Article

Street Faces

November 6, 2020 11:42 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The series of elevations is a summary analysis of various building typologies observed when walking... View Article

Layers of Humanity

November 6, 2020 5:57 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

The project investigates the different influencing factors to street density, taking study samples from different... View Article

Elements of Social Disruption

November 6, 2020 5:50 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

We have explored our theme through investigating three distinct areas within the city. These areas... View Article

Active Communities in Stalled Spaces

November 6, 2020 5:44 pm Published by Isabel Deakin Comments Off

Choose any district in or around Glasgow and it won’t take you very long to... View Article