Kim Wilkie – Settlement

Settlement

Good settlements follow topography, water and connection to food, fuel and the outside world. It means starting with the contours, soil and water, combined with an appreciation of the local patterns of human lives on the land.

Thames Landscape Strategy

'A good home, a sense of purpose and a feeling
of belonging...'

Peabody Estate, Mission Statement, 2017

'If we destroy our soil – and it is not indestructible – mankind will vanish from the earth as surely as has the Dinosaurus.'

EB Balfour, The Living Soil, 1943

Settlement

'A good home, a sense of purpose and a feeling of belonging...'

'If we destroy our soil – and it is not indestructible – mankind will vanish from the earth as surely as has the Dinosaurus.'

'A good home, a sense of purpose and a feeling
of belonging...'