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  • Is this the future of social housing?

    Last year, a development of 105 homes on the outskirts of Norwich became the first social housing project to win the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. The Goldsmith Street estate was built by London architecture firm Mikhail ....

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  • A home for life? Developing lifetime neighbourhoods to support ageing well in place

    The UK population is ageing. A 2019 report from AgeUK using data from the ONS highlighted that there are nearly 12 million (11,989,322) people aged 65 and above in the UK of which: 5.4 million people are aged 75+, 1.6 ....

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  • Taking forward key issues in Scottish planning at this year’s SPEL conference

    On 19th September 2019, we welcomed speakers and delegates to Edinburgh for the 29th Scottish Planning and Environmental Law Conference. Before we began, the conference was invited to pause to remember and reflect on the life and achievements of Robert ....

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  • Smart cities aim to make urban life more efficient – but for citizens’ sake they need to slow down

    Sometimes you want to take it slow. Fabrizio Verrecchia/Unsplash. , FAL Guest post by Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, Anglia Ruskin University All over the world, governments, institutions and businesses are combining technologies for gathering data, enhancing communications and sharing information, with ....

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  • How a smart canal and a sponge city could regenerate North Glasgow

    by Scott Faulds In the late 18th century, following years of delays and complications, the Forth and Clyde Canal was finally completed and opened for use. In the pre-industrial era, the canal was an essential transport corridor, which allowed goods ....

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  • Good enough is not enough: International Making Place Conference

    There is now a growing body of evidence to indicate that our physical environment – the places where we live, work and socialise – affects our health and wellbeing and contributes to creating or reducing inequalities. But even without the ....

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  • Engaging the ‘silent majority’ in planning: is digital the answer?

    It has long been a concern that traditional planning consultation methods do not adequately capture the views of the majority. Instead, they tend to be dominated by individuals with certain characteristics – typically older people or retirees, with high disposable ....

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  • How empowering the community can help us create better places to live

    Places can be defined in a lot of different ways: the geographic location, the physical buildings, the people who live there and the relationships that are formed. Central to places should be the people who live and interact there. Putting ....

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  • New year, new high street: it’s time to reshape our town centres (part two)

    This is the second of a two-part blog on high streets and town centres.  In our last post, we highlighted some recent publications that have sought to address the challenges facing our high streets and town centres. We looked at ....

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  • New year, new high street: it’s time to reshape our town centres (part one)

    “One thing is certain. The high street landscape has now irrevocably changed and there is no point clinging on to a sentimental vision of the past. We have to start planning for a bold new world.” This was the conclusion ....

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