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  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    UK economy
    UK will refocus green quangos to clear ‘way for progress’, says minister

    Environment Agency and Natural England’s new remit to prioritise development as well as nature, says Steve Reed

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
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    Cities harness nature in the fight against flooding

    Record rainfall and rising sea levels are prompting fresh thinking on urban protection measures

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    Gap between education and opportunity is fostering generational frustration and protests as cities expand

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  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
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    A simple, sensible idea with deep historic roots has become intensely politicised

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  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
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    The poor urban neighbourhoods that powered a manufacturing boom are once again on the front lines of Beijing’s plans

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  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
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    If the remains of the west London tower block come down, it should prompt more and better building for social housing

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  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
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  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
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    Tenants are deserting the area and moving back to the City of London — it must transform to survive

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  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
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    To solve its housing crisis, Britain needs to start planning again — and rekindle the urban idealism of the postwar decades 

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  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
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    UK planning reform: how to get developers to build more houses

    Leader of Tory-led Wiltshire council says ‘more carrots and sticks’ are needed

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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home City Living Special
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    As climate change puts more of the world at risk of flooding, landscape architects are looking beyond disaster response, to future-facing “sponge tactics”. The concept is epic, but a street-by-street approach is galvanising local groups

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  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
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    Several of the UK’s northern cities are transforming once neglected passageways into bucolic oases; community spaces filled with urban art, herb gardens — and civic pride

    An urban alleyway in between the backyards of two rows of terraced houses, the walls of which are lined with potted plants and flowers
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
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    This series tracks and highlights the most important initiatives and the policy issues that must be addressed to enable future generations to live healthier and more prosperous urban lives

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    London
    London’s mayor announces plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street

    Sadiq Khan’s proposal argues that famous shopping thoroughfare requires ‘major regeneration’

    A computer-generated image of a pedestrianised Oxford Street
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