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David catches up with journalist Helen Parton to talk about neurodiversity and how those who identify within that broad category can be better catered for in the buildings, places and spaces that we design. Parton is the author of 'Sensing Spaces' - a new book from RIBA Publishing which seeks to do just that.

David travels to Mount Anvil's One Clapham scheme to talk to the developer's social value and community engagement director, Tom Beardmore, and Firdaous Idris, one of the 'Future London Makers' it is working with alongside the GLA to find out (and put into action) what matters most to young people when it comes to the homes we live in - or aspire to

David catches up with MOD director of growth and missions, former developer, architect and sketcher extraordinaire Sherin Aminossehe to talk about the power of drawing, growing up in Iran and migrating to London, railways, museums, being a race champion, war, peace, life as a civil servant...and 'Yes Minister'

David travels to Lewisham to chat to Futurecity founder Mark Davy about his background as an artist, the power of culture-led placemaking, 'drawing out' authenticity, connecting silos, how there is no such thing as developers, only development, and the shameful neglect of some large-scale public artworks across London and beyond.

Water, water, everywhere... David meets up with Jude Barber of Collective Architecture in Canary Wharf's Eden Dock to talk about swimmable cities, waterfronts and port histories, publicly owned private spaces, who 'owns' the Clyde and the Thames, rivers gaining 'human rights'...and the 'water of life' - whisky

David meets urbanist, placemaker and strategist Nabil Al-Kinani on his home patch - the 'best place in the world' - the Chalk Hill Estate in Wembley. They talk about histories and narratives, place-naming and the Empire, commemorating and celebrating stories, communities, 'The Authors of the Estate' film, books, the Royal Docks, abolishing interest rates - and the inherent good in people.

David sits in a shady corner of the new Queen Elizabeth II garden in Regent's Park with its designer, James Lord of HTA, to discuss its inspiration and sustainable lessons for cities faced with climate change, 'slow gardening', hedgehogs, Jamie Oliver, dyslexia, and Lord's own journey into landscape, a discipline growing in importance in development and urban environments

In the third of a series of Salons for furniture firm Sixteen3, David talks to entrepreneur and author Arthur Kay, Natasha Reid of Matter Space Soul and Lauren Davies of Arup about their thoughts on how - and what kinds of - radical changes might be needed to stave off environmental calamity and make the world a better place

David sits down in a restaurant on the South Bank to chat with Bell Phillips director Jay Morton about her decision to stand as RIBA president, being a 'forever campaigner' knocking on doors with Ed Miliband, banging the drum for city architects and the public to use architects more, whether she would advise her son Wren to go into the profession, Bognor, Butlins, the Bartlett... and how, perhaps, 'quiet lasses get 'nout'