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Problems of Scale

So on Friday I went to hear my supervisor, Peter Hall, on a panel discussion with Hank Ditmar (of the Prince’s Foundation) and Will Alsop (famous architect/urban designer). The title for the discussion was “The Object, the City & the Region“, which didn’t seem to have a whole lot to do with the actual discussion… Continue reading Problems of Scale

Published August 1, 2008
Categorized as Built Environment, Front Page Tagged eco-towns, neighbourhood, scale

Local Employment & Public Transit

The Guardian reports that proposals for Britain’s new ‘eco-towns’ were found by a government panel to be ‘inadequate’. The two most oft-cited problems for the ones that weren’t “little more than a typical existing housing scheme” were local employment and transport.

Published June 23, 2008
Categorized as Built Environment Tagged behaviour, eco-towns, employment, housing, transport

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