The UK Government wants to make it easier to convert offices to residential use without full planning permission to help solve London's housing shortage. But it runs the risk of simply turning valuable commercial space into more empty houses owned by foreign millionaires, as Zoe Green discusses.
Neither the right nor the left like the appointment of an emergency manager for Detroit, but he will be critical in calming the municipal bond market and preventing infrastructure costs from inflating.
Sebastian Schulz describes how decentralisation without fiscal powers is encouraging districts to undermine the master plan and overdevelop their territories.
Africa is not urbanising as rapidly as we think. What are the implications for the business world, or for the possibilities for local economic development?
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Zoe Green is a chartered planning consultant with Atkins Ltd, with experience in policy and masterplanning projects for both private and public…
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