1-4 of 4 matching articles 5 20 100 All Not all grand plans can be great plans: evaluating Foster's Thames Hub vision Kerwin Datu • 20 December 2011 There is much to be commended, and much to be weeded out, in Foster's vision for a new London airport in the Thames Estuary and the proposal for a new transport, utilities and data spine running the length of the country. 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. Rumour has it that Dubai has collapsed... Michele Acuto • 18 October 2011 ...but with the Al Maktoum International Airport, the logistics centre in Jebel Ali, and a flourishing of small-scale economic life, evidence would suggest otherwise, as Michele Acuto observes. Bullish on Africa's cities: the case of Khartoum, Sudan Kerwin Datu • 1 February 2011 The international community is increasingly optimistic about the wealth generated in Africa's cities. But with rising slum populations projected from the same trends, how shall the former overcome the latter?
