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Planning for healthier places
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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The Town and Country Planning Association has launched a new report to help local authorities seize the public health agenda and create healthier and happier places for people to live and work in, especially in areas of deprivation.
Deloitte Infrastructure Investors Survey 2013
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This is Deloitte’s third survey of the infrastructure investor sector. The only study of its kind brings together interviews with 22 leaders from a wide cross-section of infrastructure investors (both funds and direct investors), with in-depth analysis of historical trends from our surveys in 2010 and 2007.
Help to heat: A solution to the affordability crisis in energy
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This report sets out a comprehensive and cost-neutral policy framework to improve the energy efficiency of the UK’s housing stock. It argues that this would provide an immediate and long-lasting solution to energy affordability, boost GDP through job-creation, and reduce both carbon emissions and the UK’s reliance on gas imports. This report sets out the reasons why current policy, such as the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation, is failing, and proposes a new integrated energy efficiency and fuel poverty framework called ‘Help to Heat’. The policies included in this framework would make improved efficiency and substantial bill reductions available to thousands more households through free energy efficiency assessments, low-cost financing options, local economies of scale and improved supply chains, greater competition and effective targeting of fuel poverty need.
Balancing the future of Europe’s coasts: knowledge base for integrated management
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This new report from the European Environment Agency calls for better information, planning and management decisions to balance multiple demands on the coastal environment.
New Cities Foundation
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Created in 2010, the New Cities Foundation is a non-profit institution. Its vision is more inclusive, dynamic and creative cities benefiting people and society. To realise this vision, the Foundation seeks to incubate, promote and scale urban innovations through collaborative partnerships between government, business, academia and civil society. The work centers around two main areas of activity: design and implementation of scalable pilot projects and initiatives that provide new solutions to key urban challenges; hosting agenda-setting events, including the annual New Cities Summit, bringing together thought-leaders and decision-makers that will shape the urban future.
So….you want to build in China
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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Unsurprisingly, with an increasing number of architects and designers wanting to take advantage of China’s emerging construction, many UK architects are looking east to find streets paved with gold. This programme seeks to give them the basics of how, or whether, to take the leap. The programme speaks to a number of architects about their anecdotes and advice about dealing with or moving to China.
Typhoon Haiyan, Warsaw climate change negotiations, budgeting in the real world
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This podcast involves a discussion on what Typhoon Haiyan reveals about climate change, disaster preparedness and emergency response, assesses the outcome of the UN climate change talks in Warsaw, and examines budgeting in the real world.
Greater Manchester Construction Sector Pipeline Analysis
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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A new study published by Greater Manchester Chamber on Thursday is designed to improve the city region’s construction prospects for growth by assessing detailed skills and employment assessments to inform training providers. The report was compiled by Barbour ABI and the Construction Industry Training Board.
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. A research impact review prepared for English Heritage by the Landscape Group, University of East Anglia
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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This review aims to examine the principal research carried out into Brown and his works over the last few decades, and to identify some of the principal gaps in our knowledge as we approach the tercentenary of his birth. This is based on a survey of the published secondary literature on Brown, and addresses the problem of the so-called ‘grey’ literature.
Clean Thames Now and Always
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Clean Thames Now and Always is a group of environmentally conscious Londoners from all around the city, who are passionate about the possibilities of implementing state of the art blue-green infrastructure to improve and protect the Thames eco-system and improve our environment for all Londoners, in the short and long term.
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