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Feb 2025
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#105: (WILD) Wilding the City, with Soph...

ROSS O'CEALLAIGH
About this episode

This is episode 2 of 6 in the podcast series on urban rewilding.

My guest is Sophie Thompson, a landscape architect and Director at LDA Design.

In this episode we discuss:

  • How wild nature can be brought into city streets and public spaces
  • The importance of working closely with local communities
  • Examples of LDA’s transformations of highly urban spaces into places for people and nature.
  • How to manage the complexities and constraints of working in cities.

More about LDA Design and the projects we discuss:
LDA Website
Greening London's West End
Alfred Place Gardens
Princes Circus

Connect with Sophie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-thompson-51b4748/

Further listening:
Listen to Part 1 in the urban rewilding series: #102: (WILD) Rewilding Urban Parks with Lost Species - Sean McCormack, Ealing Beaver Project

Listen to my previous episode with LDA on their Strand Aldwych project: #81: Reimagining Roads as Public Space, with LDA


Cover image of Princes Circus, London by LDA Design. Photo by Studio Maple, used with permission from LDA Design. 

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