On the 24th of April 2020, the requirement in Scottish planning to undertake in-person community consultation before larger planning applications are made was suspended as a result of the impact of COVID-19. Applicants were instructed ...
Le Corbusier and Ebenezer Howard are staples of urban design theory. Both believed they were proposing solutions to the negative impact of industrialisation on cities, yet Howard – an Urban Planner – argued for moderate, ...
Neoliberalism, as the name suggests, is a new form of liberalism, pitched by its originating scholars as a societal model where free markets were prioritised over government intervention. Its core values have seen a new ...
The hub and spoke public transport model found in most English cities provides direct, linear public transport routes connecting outer areas to a central hub. Arguments for this approach include that it requires fewer buses ...
The Southern European island nation of Malta is generally considered to be either a single urban region home to two major cities or one of the world’s most densely populated countries. With almost 500,000 people ...
Cape Town, like most cities, was caught up in the automobile hype during the 1960s. Construction of a freeway through the centre of South Africa’s second most populous city was underway, but work abruptly drew ...
Before COVID-19 took a sledgehammer to economic norms, two business models were increasing in familiarity. The subscription model commonly associated with magazines and newspapers – paying a recurring price for access to something – was ...
One year ago, in July 2019, the National Park City Foundation declared London the world’s first National Park City. An international charter published at the same time encourages other cities in the UK and internationally ...
You might not immediately think of Wales – a small country in north-west Europe with a population of around 3.1 million people – when thinking about sustainable housing innovations. A constituent country of the United ...
Most would agree that public transport should reach enough people, sufficiently meet their mobility needs and generate significant ridership. But in many cities these goals are only being met within a fairly fixed interpretation. Fixed ...
Back in the early 2000s most visions of future urban mobility involved some kind of congestion pricing. For a time, it seemed that cities all over the world were considering, planning or launching schemes which ...