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Modern cities, towns and neighbourhoods seem almost designed to suppress activity and create poor health, says Scott Cain.
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01.07.2021For those who have even the slightest Buddhist leanings, yin and yang will have some resonance. For everyone else, the edict of ‘for every positive, there’s a negative’ might ring louder bells.
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23.06.2021Community Engagement | consultation | Demographics & Population Growth | digital consultation | England | Technology | UK | young peopleWe need to broaden the narrative around housebuilding so that it incorporates the stories of young people, argues Joshua Carson. The way to do that is to blend technology with a radical rethink of...
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21.06.2021Immediate Past President Sue Manns FRTPI gives an update on the RTPI’s work on diversity over the past 12 months
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21.06.2021The concept of the '15-minute city' presents a challenge to policymakers, businesses and planners - but it also opens up a host of opportunities for improving the way we live, argues Mandy Owen
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11.06.2021Business & Enterprise | Campaigning & Advocacy | high court | home delivery | Judicial review | logistics | London | NOcado | Ocado | Policy & PoliticsIt took a determined community campaign to highlight flaws in Ocado’s efforts to build a distribution centre next to a primary school in Islington, London. Campaigners Natasha Cox and Bill Eyres outline the...
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Plymouth City Council has extended the scheme in which crowdfunding helps allocate the neighbourhood proportion of its community infrastructure levy – a climate emergency bonus now incentivises environmental projects. Martin Read reports
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COP26 will accelerate the drive for climate finance, and planning has a role to play in directing this money to where it’s needed. But major policy reforms are needed to unleash further investment, finds Huw Morris
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Achieving net-zero requires all tiers of government to work in concert to a shared set of ambitions and standards. But is this happening? Matt Moody and Simon Wicks and consider how UK local planning authorities are managing the drive to net-zero
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