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  • Culture and Creativity in Walthamstow

    Exploring how culture and creativity are understood, practiced and experienced in Walthamstow and a strategy for how they can be better supported.



  • Expanding London’s Public Realm

    A design guide to enhance the public value and design quality of London’s expanded public realm.


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  • London Grows

    A film exploring the stories of nine wild and growing spaces in London.



  • Green Belt Atlas

    Pioneering mapping of the Metropolitan Green Belt at the Royal College of Art.


  • DK-CM_Public-House_2021

    Public House

    A major new history of the London pub, explored through multiple voices and perspectives and edited by David Knight and Cristina Monteiro.


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  • New Publics

    An exhibition about stepping across sectors and beyond traditional architectural practice to build new forms of publicness, with Public Practice and Alison Crawshaw.



  • Royal Docks Economic Portrait

    Exploring the needs and ambitions of the Royal Docks business community.


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  • The Sugar Mile

    Exploring the history and identity of the ‘Sugar Mile’ – a key transport artery threading together London’s Royal Docks.



  • Bristol Harbour Atlas

    A public document exploring Bristol’s harbour as it is prior to developing a 20-year Place Shaping Strategy for the area.



  • Making Planning Popular

    Doctoral research exploring the relationship between English public planning and wider society, with a focus on online discourse and knowledge exchange.



  • Talking Planning

    Built environment skilling for young creatives in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham.



  • Listening to the Grand Union Canal

    An engagement study which captures the use and perceptions of the canal at Old Oak and Park Royal.


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  • Bruce Grove Stories

    A series of films made with local young people captures a diverse and varied portrait of Bruce Grove.


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  • Building Rights

    Building Rights aims to become the primary source of planning expertise in the UK.



  • SUB-PLAN

    Both a practical guide for the householder and an exploration of the limits of legislation.


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  • The Tenement: collective city dwelling before Modernism

    Exploring collective dwelling at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference 2017



  • Wastelands of the Lea Valley

    Guide to the Wastelands of the Lea Valley: 12 empty spaces await the London Olympics is a polemical guidebook to the pre-Olympic lower Lea Valley.


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  • Around Barkingside

    A guide to the area’s architecture and heritage.


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  • Book of Copies

    DK-CM’s contribution to San Rocco’s Book of Copies project in 2013, compiling 50 photocopies on the theme of ‘Shop Windows.’


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  • Roding-Made Research Study

    A research study into the social and historical context of the industrial areas of Barking & Dagenham through a series of interviews with local creatives, produced by DK-CM, Create London and the New Economics Foundation.


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  • Urban Actions Field Guide

    King’s Cross Urban Actions Field Guide for the London Festival of Architecture 2012.


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  • The Rule of Regulations

    A exhibition exploring the aesthetics and consequences of housing regulation.


  • Mapping-the-Invisible, Black Dog publishing, by David Knight in collaboration with Project 35, Lucy Orta, The London College of Fashion, 2010

    Mapping the Invisible

    A Europe-wide 3 year research project on Roma dwelling and housing.


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