16-20 of 159 matching articles 5 20 100 All The curtailing of London’s creative economy Zoe Green • 5 August 2015 Two years after the introduction of Permitted Development Rights, Zoe Green argues that the policy is threatening the local creative economy in UK cities by pricing out small and medium sized enterprises. Nationally significant infrastructure projects: Another dent in the UK's localism agenda? James Patterson-Waterston • 14 May 2013 With investment capital scarce after the global financial crisis, the UK's localism agenda is starting to look unaffordable, with campaigns to make all sorts of projects look like NSIPs to attract funding. From pancakes to clusters: why Shanghai needs fiscal decentralisation to achieve its sustainability plans Sebastian Schulz • 11 December 2012 Sebastian Schulz describes how decentralisation without fiscal powers is encouraging districts to undermine the master plan and overdevelop their territories. A city doesn't need a centre! (But it does need realistic planning) Kerwin Datu • 29 July 2010 The cities of the twenty-first century are too big for the old hub-and-spokes models; cities like Los Angeles, London and Sydney should be planned as tapestries, with ruthless disregard for the traditional dominance of our city centres. The centre reigns supreme: how a polycentric urban plan for Beijing was lost Jinxi Chen • 10 July 2012 Jinxi Chen takes us on a modern history tour of Beijing's urban structure, arguing that Mao's efforts to rebuild the centre preserved a concentric structure that could not work well for contemporary Beijing. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
