Green Thinking Review
Edition 87
Beyond the Front Door
The Home Begins with the House. Where Does It End?
Follow the home outward: through entrances, courtyards and grounds, into shared spaces and the wider neighbourhood. This edition explores the connections and continuing care that help everyday life flourish beyond the house.
Edition cover · web-ready PDF availableWhy this edition matters
A question with consequences.
A comfortable house cannot, by itself, resolve a flooded approach, an exhausting commute or a street with little room for walking. Entrances, paths, planting, drainage and shared spaces all contribute to the experience of home. Their usefulness should be intentional, with clear boundaries, access arrangements, funding and responsibility for upkeep. Goldsmith Street in Norwich offers lessons for Nigerian housing, while reminding us that shared spaces depend on continuing care.
Inside GTR 87
A complete conversation, in one focused edition.
Between the House and the Street
Seven Ways to Connect Homes with Their Surroundings
Five Decisions Before We Approve the Layout
Goldsmith Street: Connecting Homes with Everyday Life
Where the Plot Ends: Who Cares for the Shared Space?
Designing the Spaces Between
2040: When Home Extends to the Neighbourhood
Cover story
The Home Does Not End at the Door
Step out: see the whole home.
Ideas become useful when they meet a real place, a real challenge and the people shaping what comes next.
GTR reflection · Shareable thought
“A home’s usefulness is shaped by the connections beyond its walls.”— Green Thinking Review, Edition 87
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Reference this edition.
Green Thinking Review. “Beyond the Front Door: The Home Begins with the House. Where Does It End?” GTR 87, 23 October 2026. https://www.greenthinking.sheltagroup.com/issues/beyond-the-front-door
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