1st Edition

Roaming Britain Gypsy, Traveller and Nomadic Communities in the Built Environment

By Alice Power, Lauren Alderton Copyright 2026
208 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

208 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Gypsies and Travellers once followed routes passed down from generation to generation, returning to the same stopping places in tandem with the seasons and opportunities for work. Now, stopping places are practically non-existent, and sites are often placed in environmentally hazardous areas - near motorways, industrial estates, and railroad tracks. This threatens their itinerant lifestyles and... Read more

Preface / About the Authors, Acknowledgements, Practising Urban Design, PART I: Urban Design Analysis, Route Hierarchy, Movement & Facilities, Service & Access, Legibility, Public Realm, Green Infrastructure, Site Attributes, Morphology, Land Use, Building Heights, Architectural Quality, Heritage, Serial Vision, Character Study, Strategic Location, Policy, Socio-Demographic Data PART II: Designing the Urban, Urban Block Principles, Service Requirements, Buildings & Architecture, Corners, Enclosure, Public Realm Principles, Street Design, Public Space Design, Green Infrastructure Design, Technical Standards PART III: Communicating Urban Design, Technical 2D Plans, The Cross-Section, Sketching, 3D Visualisation, Graphical Presentation, A Transparent Urban Design Process, References, Index, Image Credits

Biography

Alice Power is Assistant Curator of Architecture and Urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alice has been at the museum for six years, working on projects such as Rapid Response Collecting and V&A East Storehouse project. She has a long history of involvement in projects around social inclusion, including around the Irish Diaspora.

Lauren Alderton has been Assistant Curator at the RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection since 2018. She has contributed to projects focused on making the RIBA Collections more inclusive, and her interests lie in the social histories found in the built environment.