Urban development

Addressing some of the major social, economic and environmental challenges facing our cities today and in the future.

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Responding to climate change in the context of rapid urbanisation

According to Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, from the Urban Institute, attaining low carbon cities depends on mundane actions; the kind of small shifts in everyday life whereby citizens themselves become the agents of change.

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Shaping the cities of tomorrow in the wake of Covid-19

Has the scale and severity of global pandemic COVID-19 changed the perspective of what urban development and an ‘urban future’ might look like?

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A house in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Image by Centre for Ageing Better.

England’s crumbling housing stock thanks to lack of government action, says new report

New report by UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence says lack of action from the central government has contributed to housing quality crisis in England.

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