LONDON DISCOVERY EXPERIENCE  London as studio and research laboratory  This assignment is Discovery 1: Historic Trafalgar Square—Culture inspired by our text- The site for this experience is books and preparation Trafalgar Square, its events, and seminar. Your inter- surrounding cultural sites, includ- est and enthusiasm ing, but not limited to the National will make your London Gallery, the National Portrait Gal- Discovery Experiences lery, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields a profound and lasting Church and Gallery. endeavor. Explore distinct as- pects of London that contribute to its cul- tural, economic, and Discovery 2: London Mercantile—Metabolism environmental sustain- The site for this experience is ability. Each experience is keyed to one of the pages of the Oxford Street from Selfridges to Green Cities Guidebook (GCG). Your assignment is to use John Lewis, New Bond and Bond pertinent GCG pages—the one noted, plus at least one of Streets, and the Burlington Ar- your choice—to help analyze each “discovery” area while you cade. You may also include some of visit, record, analyze, and critique it through dialog, sketch- London’s High Streets such as in es, still photography, words, and diagrams. These experi- Marylebone and in Camden. ences are defined in an open-ended manner that affords you the opportunity to ask pertinent research questions, pose hypotheses, and customize the study to your interests. Blocks of time for “discovery” are scheduled during weekdays in London. There is no sequential order to this assignment. You choose your “discovery sites” and their visiting order. At- tempt only one “discovery” for each scheduled session. Allow Discovery 3: Public Squares/Royal Parks—Biophilia at least three hours to visit each “discovery” site(s) as well The site for this experience is one as additional time off-site for reflection, analysis, and -re of the Royal Parks (Green Park, cording. You may work individually, in pairs, or in groups. While Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, you are required to document only four of your “discovery Regent’s Park, or St. James Park), experiences,” six or seven time slots have been scheduled to including its pavilions and monu- provide opportunity to revisit sites as needed to complete ments, as well as two contrasting your work. public squares of your choice any- where in the city. Each week you’ll have a chance to share your discoveries and gain feedback from your peers during the tutorial sessions with your TA. Your discoveries will be reported in your course journal. Discovery 4: South Bank of the Thames—Walkability Discovery 7: The Docklands Revival—Planning The site for this experience is the The site for this experience is south bank of the River Thames Canary Wharf and its Museum from Westminster Bridge to Tower of London Docklands, Victoria Bridge and the cultural venues Docks and its Crystal Exhibition along the way including, but not and Emirates Air Line, and/or the limited to, Royal Festival Hall, the North Greenwich Peninsula with its

National Theatre, the Tate Mod- O2 Centre. ern, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and London City Hall as well as the pedestrian bridges that connect to the north bank—Hungerford and Millennium Bridges.

Discovery 5: Victorian Exhibition Road—Culture Discovery 8: Rail Connectivity—Mobility The site for this experience is Exhi- The sites for this experience are bition Road and the museums and Euston, King’s Cross, Paddington, cultural venues that border it—Vic- and St. Pancras train stations and toria and Albert Museum, Natural their connections to public tran- History Museum, Science Museum, sit—Boris bikes, bus, tube, and Imperial College, Royal Albert Hall, overground. You may augment the and the Albert Memorial (in Kens- work with comparison to other rail- ington Gardens). way stations throughout the UK.

Discovery 6: New London Architecture—Planning Discovery 9: City Markets—Metabolism The site for this experience is The sites for this experience in- Bloomsbury and its two architec- clude Borough Market, Covent ture schools (the Architecture Gardens, Leadenhall Market, Association and UCL’s Bartlett Smithfield Market, and Saturday School), the Building Centre on Market at the Brunswick. You may Store Street, and the RIBA Gal- also include far-flung markets such lery on Portland Place. Optionally, as those at Camden, Greenwich, compare to CAT, Glasgow School Notting Hill, and Oxford. of Art, Oxford Brookes University, or the architecture exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Discovery 10: Pedestrian Zones—Walkability The sites for this experience are the pedestrian zones/streets— St. Christopher's Place, South Moulton Street, Shepherd's Mar- ket, and Carnaby Street—and the auto-restricted congestion zone of Central London.

Discovery 11: Self-Defined—Your Choice You choose a topic, pertinent site(s), and at least two pages from the GCG for the experi- ence that will give you insight into London’s cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability. Ex- plain why your choice of topic and site(s) are of particular impor- tance.