densification

The costs and benefits of density in cities

13.06.2019

Gabriel M Ahlfeldt

compact cities | Dense cities | densification | Infrastructure - Transport | International | Public Realm | UK | urban form

There's plenty of talk about the benefits of compact cities, but where's the evidence? A new paper by Gabriel M Ahlfeldt and Elisabetta Pietrostefani suggests that dense city forms carry a range of benefits...
We need to extend upwards if we're to solve the housing crisis

04.12.2018

Val Bagnall

densification | England | Housing | housing crisis | housing shortage | Intensfication

Although two-thirds of people surveyed by the Federation of Master Builders believe that there is a housing crisis, the solutions that its recent research suggests – such as building more granny flats, co-...
Super suburbia: How building on small sites can help to relieve the housing shortage

05.09.2018

Riëtte Oosthuizen

densification | Design | England | Housing | housing crisis | London | Regeneration | small sites | Suburban | suburbia | Supurbia

In the first of a series of articles looking at the future of housing in the UK, Riëtte Oosthuizen considers how suburbia can contribute to supplying the housing the nation needs
Understanding heritage can unlock housing growth in London

20.12.2016

Laurie Hancock

densification | Development | Heritage | London | Regeneration | skyline

If London is to accommodate population growth while respecting its historic environment it will need a strategic plan, says Laurie Hancock
Bypass developers for more affordable housing, London architect tells MPs

02.03.2016

Simon Wicks

densification | England | housebuilders | Housing | London

Bypassing private developers could speed up housebuilding on public land and enable local authorities to build more of the right homes in the right places at the right price, a London architect has told MPs.
Garden city proposed for Sheffield

04.11.2015

Laura Edgar

densification | England | garden city | Housing | Infrastructure | Sheffield | URBED

Last year’s winner of the Wolfson Prize has recommended that 100,000 homes be built in Sheffield and the surrounding area over the next 20 years.
City villages: What the experts say

27.03.2015

Simon Wicks

city vilages | Community Engagement | densification | Development Management & Enforcement | England | Housing | Infrastructure | IPPR | London

Think-tank IPPR marked the launch of its new publication City Villages: More homes, better communities at the Royal Institute of British Architects on Tuesday (...
Garden city policy falls 500,000 homes short

09.03.2015

Laura Edgar

Birmingham | densification | England | Future Spaces Foundation | Garden cities | Housing | housing shortage | London

Government plans to deliver 250,000 homes through garden cities would still leave a shortage of 500,000 homes by 2020, says think tank Future Spaces Foundation (FSF).
Attack the blocks

21.11.2014

Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones | densification | Development | Development Management & Enforcement | Housing | Housing | London | public realm | Regeneration | UK

As the billions financing London’s ‘Boris behemoths’ – 200 more towers are planned by the mayor – are mostly escaping taxation elsewhere in the world and the South Bank becomes a European version of Dubai,...