Led by landscape and planting designer Sarah Price of Sarah Price Landscapes, celebrates how gardens and parks have kept biodiversity alive in cities, providing rich experiences for wildlife and people. Not only can naturalistic city planting be environmentally sound but, if thoughtfully designed, it can be dramatically beautiful. The ride looks at…

Ideas about city housing schemes have changed almost beyond recognition over the last 100 years. This tour of some of London’s iconic housing estates shows how they have been remodelled and updated for a new century and a new way of living. The ride is led by designer Wayne Hemingway but a cast of architects are on hand to share their expertise on …

Led by Stephen Bayley, design guru and architecture and design correspondent of The Observer newspaper. He is a former Chief Executive of the Design Museum and in 1989 was awarded France’s top cultural accolade, and made a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Starting with the first ever building-as-an-advertisement – the Michelin Building…

Roger Madelin is joint chief executive of Argent property developers. This ride sets out to see some new public spaces being formed on the railway lands at King’s Cross. From there it heads into Islington to look at small and large parks, gardens and play spaces in wealthy and not so wealthy areas. The tour then goes into the City, through Broadgat…

Cany Ash of Ash Sakula Architects leads this tour of recent developments hugging viaducts, canals & roads. The ride starts under the Green Bridge in Mile End Park, just off the Mile End Road. Travelling east along the canal adjacent to Victoria Park, the ride comes to Fish Island, to drop in on a handful of warehouse spaces used for work, living, a…

Fergus Connolly is a specialist in historic architecture and conservation at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. This ride visits several churches built in the wake of the Great Fire of London, in particular those of Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor. The ride considers the context of these architectural gems in terms of religion, arts, and the ci…