Social infrastructure
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05.12.2014Community Engagement | Development Management & Enforcement | public realm | Social infrastructure | Southbank | UK | urban design | young peopleAre we designing young people out of our cities? We asked two young planners and listened to a talk by a teenage skater who successfully campaigned to save the Southbank skate park in London
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07.11.2014As we head towards the 2015 election, political change for the UK's cities has never seemed more possible, says Alexandra Jones
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17.10.2014Community Engagement | England | garden city | Housing | Local plans | Social infrastructure | urban extension | URBED | Wolfson prizeThis year's Wolfson Economics Prize has stirred up debate - and emotion - about the possibilities ofr a new wave of garden cities
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19.09.2014Cameron | Infrastructure | Local plans | planning | referendum | Scotland | Social infrastructure | UKThe RTPI is adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach ahead of potential governance changes across the UK following the 'No' vote in the Scottish independence referendum.
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09.09.2014Alan Kelly, the Republic of Ireland’s minister for the environment, community and local government, has announced the allocation of €23 million capital funding to some 31 city and county councils to undertake improvement works for social housing.
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28.08.2014bicester | Development Management & Enforcement | homes | Housing | Social infrastructure | South East | zero carbonPlans for up to 2,600 homes in an ‘eco-town’ at Bicester in Oxfordshire have been submitted.
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27.08.2014As many 40 new garden cities are needed to solve the housing crisis, according to planners and architects shortlisted for a prestigious prize.
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26.08.2014Cymru | Infrastructure | Regeneration | Regeneration | Social infrastructure | Vibrant and Viable Places fundTredegar in Blaenau Gwent and Grangetown in Cardiff will get £1 million from the Welsh government for town and district centre improvements.
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26.08.2014Community | Community Engagement | Development Management & Enforcement | placemaking | Social infrastructure | suburbia | UKThere was much to excite a mind engaged with the challenges facing suburbia at this year's Imagining The Suburbs conference in Exeter, organised by the Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network...
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26.08.2014An ambitious opening session at this year’s RTPI planning convention saw Anil Menon, Cisco’s advocate of the digital economy, deliver a wake-up call on the need to address...
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