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Breaking boundaries: empowering city growth through cross-border collaboration
Posted on: 27 March 2014
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This report from the Centre for Cities looks at the challenges and benefits of councils working together to support economic growth, argues that the benefits need to outweigh the costs if the UK is to make the most of its cities and their surrounding areas.
Core renters in London’s new-build market and the future of the London economy
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A new report by Get Living London, the private rental company and owners of East Village, the former London 2012 Athletes’ Village, has revealed that the failure to provide quality housing for the core group of renters that drive the capital’s growth could reduce the economic output of London by £1 billion per year, a cumulative cost of £85 billion by 2025.
Proposals for skyscrapers of the future
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Architecture magazine eVolo takes readers into the future with its annual skyscraper competition, which rewards innovative ideas for vertical living. For its ninth annual competition, the magazine received 525 projects from 43 countries on all continents. Three winners and 20 honorable mentions were selected by a jury of leaders in the fields of architecture and design.
Cities and energy: Urban morphology and heat energy demand
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LSE Cities has published a new report and paper on the impact of urban morphology on heat energy demand in cities in collaboration with the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The research focuses on heat energy efficiencies created by the spatial configuration of cities and is based on the identification of the five most dominant residential building typologies in each of the four largest European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Istanbul.
Asia Pacific Offices 2020
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What will the office landscape look like in 2020? Research from JLL aims to answer this crucial question through a suite of reports that explore trends affecting office real estate in six cities across Asia Pacific, including Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. These forward looking insights have been distilled from roundtable discussions with over 40 industry experts throughout the region.
Berlin airfield is battleground for scarce housing: Real estate
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Berlin beginning to face same housing pressures as London, preserve open space or contain price growth. This article looks at the debate over the redevelopment of the former Tempelhof Airport site.
Supurbia: A study of urban intensification in outer London
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The Supurbia project is a collaboration led by Ben Derbyshire, Managing Partner of HTA Design and Richard Blakeway, the Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property at the GLA, working with members of HTA’s team and others. The study aims to identify how urban intensification of suburban London might contribute to an increase in housing supply, promote economic activity, improve local service provision, reduce congestion, improve the quality of life, the choices available and sustainability in the suburbs of the outer Boroughs.
Rotterdam’s Water Square
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On the Benthemsquare in Rotterdam, Dutch landscape architecture firm De Urbanisten has finally achieved what they set out to do seven years ago: create a water park for the community fed entirely by storm water. Instead of hiding runoff in underground pipes and cisterns, the square has been designed to make water the main feature. The designers say this is the world’s first “water square.”
UK Travel Management Study
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UK version of the ninth AirPlus International Travel Management Study, the annual snapshot of how travel managers in 24 countries around the world view corporate travel trends.
Communicating rural development: People, projects, ideas. Vilnius, 3-4 March 2014
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Building on the experience gained over 2007-2013, the European Network for Rural Development Seminar focused on the contribution of communications to improving rural development policy implementation at the EU, Member State and local level. The event provided representatives of Managing Authorities, Paying Agencies, National Rural Networks, Local Action Groups or other rural stakeholders with the opportunity to share their experience and engage in discussions about the best and most effective ways of communicating rural development. Presentations are available online.
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