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Lucy Bullivant
Writing, Curating, Strategising: Lucy Bullivant’s Urbanist Toolkit
Lucy Bullivant, founder of Lucy Bullivant & Associates, on urbanism, curating and place strategy. Hear her Architecture Social podcast episode.
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- Director
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- Lucy Bullivant & Associates
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- London, UK
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Episode 0239 · Architecture Social
Writing, Curating, Strategising: Lucy Bullivant’s Urbanist Toolkit
Award-winning author, strategist and curator Lucy Bullivant joins us to spill the tea on what it really takes to shape cities that work – and why good urbanism needs more than just good design. We dive into her journey from writing "Masterplanning Futures" to curating edutainment exhibitions, chairing design review panels and working hands-on with communities from Oslo to Enfield. It’s all about retrofitting, storytelling, publishing, people and place. Lucy’s lived it – and she’s not holding bac
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Lucy Bullivant is the founder of Lucy Bullivant & Associates, a London consultancy working across place strategy, curating, artistic direction and public speaking.
An author, strategist and curator, she has written extensively on contemporary urbanism, including Masterplanning Futures (Routledge), curated more than 30 exhibitions internationally, and chairs design review panels. Her place-strategy work spans the public sector and business improvement districts, with community engagement projects from Oslo to Enfield.
She holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University and an MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA (Hon FRIBA) in 2010. She is also founder and creative director of the urbanism webzine Urbanista.org, and a trustee of the Temple Bar Trust, where she curates its talks programme on architecture and built environment education.
Lucy joined the Architecture Social podcast to discuss writing, curating, place strategy, retrofitting and community engagement.
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Lucy Bullivant & Associates
Lucy Bullivant & Associates is a London consultancy working in place strategy, curating, artistic direction and public speaking.
Architecture practice · Greater London
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- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Lucy Bullivant & Associates
- Location
- London, UK
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- 1 episode · 2025
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