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Posted on: 21 January 2014
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A global specialist, dedicated to business payment solutions, also provides information on the business travel market.
Ginger Juice
Posted on: 21 January 2014
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Ginger Juice is a specialist social media agency for travel and tourism, based in London, UK.
Cities and ageing
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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By 2050, for the first time in human history, there will be more older people in the world than children under 14 years of age. By that same year, 70 percent of the world population will be urbanized. This report examines the implications of these two converging global demographic trends and the policy and planning challenges associated with “age friendly cities.
Design first or last? A fork in the road for Helsinki’s new City Plan
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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This blog looks at some of the newest master plans and development strategies European metropolitan cities are putting forward. The author argues that across Europe, and in North America, one of the key reasons why cities are getting ecstatic about urban form is the poor performance of the conventional modernist zoning approach to this end.
Should programs in architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture require a certain minimum level of learning about the fundamentals of ecology? Why?
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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Every month The Nature of Cities, a virtual magazine on cities as ecosystems, hosts a Global Roundtable on a specific question. Writers from diverse perspectives offer a brief response. Then the Roundtable is open to all comments and ideas.
Planning for housing in England: Understanding recent changes in household formation rates and their implications for planning for housing in England
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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New research published by the Royal Town Planning Institute suggests that local councils in England may be underestimating housing need by up to 30% in some cases, due to an overreliance on Government household projection data.
The ABC of housing growth and infrastructure: Report and case studies
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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This project forms part of The Housing Forum’s Building Homes for the Future workstream. It has been led by senior practitioners from the housing field who have over the past decade or more been concerned at the UK’s poor performance in providing sufficient homes for a growing population and the low quality of much of what is built. The report argues that the biggest challenge of all is to address the issue of land supply and its cost.
New lenses on future cities
Posted on: 17 January 2014
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Published by Shell and Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities, this report explains why the compact city model is key to resource efficiency, and how these cities can also be highly liveable.
Back to rising damp? Addressing housing quality in the private rented sector
Posted on: 17 January 2014
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This paper explores the nature of the private rented sector as it exists today, looking at changing patterns of occupancy and the characteristics of the sector itself. It explores the growth of the housing benefit submarket, and what the tenure means for tenants themselves and the neighbourhoods that private rented housing helps to shape.
The Brits who built the modern world, 1950-2012
Posted on: 17 January 2014
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In February 2014 the Royal Institute of British Architects will open its new public gallery with regular, free exhibitions. The launch event, The Brits who built the modern world, 1950-2012, tells the global story of how British architecture underwent a transformation in the post-war years to become world-leading in the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition runs from 13 February – 27 May 2014.
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