All Supplements articles – Page 55
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Legal
The Public Contracts Regulations bring in new rules for public procurement - you mean you didn't know? Get reading
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Archive TitlesFrom where I'm sitting …
Why should investors put their money into regeneration projects?
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Archive TitlesWay to go
The Northern Way was launched two years ago with the aim of bridging the £29bn wealth gap between the north and the south of England. But has the real gap been between rhetoric and action?
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Archive TitlesJust what the doctors ordered
Cash is about to start pouring out of hospitals and into ‘one stop shops' where health meets social care and the public and private sectors join forces to deliver services. As Swanke Hayden Connell Architects explains, mixed-use health projects call for new models of integrated development
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Archive TitlesReshaping the city
We should stop looking to the USA to tell us how mixed communities can work, says the renowned expert on urban society, Richard Sennett - an American. And on this point at least, Dermot Finch, director of Centre for Cities, is happy to agree.
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Archive TitlesLatest thinking on … the Black Country
What regeneration activity is going on in the Black Country?
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Archive TitlesNow we're all upwardly moblie
In the battle to make cities more family friendly, residential developers are proposing to build high, freeing up space below for public use. Josephine Smit reports on a Docklands scheme that may unnerve a few yuppies
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Archive Titles10 ways to define regeneration
The term urban regeneration covers everything from creating desirable homes in city centres to finding new uses for our formal industrial heartlands. We asked industry figures to sum up what regeneration means for them. Here are their answers…
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Legal
Labour has set great store in reviewing the compulsory purchase laws. So why has it suddenly started backtracking?
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Archive TitlesThe lie of the land
It may not look like it but this plot of land is a brownfield site and its owner has ambitious plans to turn it into a role model for sustainable development, one that will be water, energy and waste neutral. But will the government's latest policy proposals help or hinder ...
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Archive TitlesFrom where I'm sitting …
What's the verdict on the government's proposed Code for Sustainable Homes?
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Archive TitlesHow we used our initiative
Essex is one of the most crowded (and drought-prone) parts of Europe, and with 120,000 extra homes planned it's about to get even cosier (and drier) - so it's essential to get sustainable planning and urban design right from the beginning. Here's how the council is making sure developers play ...
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Archive TitlesThe home question
The government now says it wants to deliver an extra 50,000 new homes every year by 2010. It's part of the chancellor's response to Kate Barker's report into housing supply and puts housebuilding policy firmly at the top of this year's agenda.
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Archive TitlesHow do we get from this ...... to this?
With the toughest challenges to the Decent Homes programme still to come, the pressure is on to find ways of meeting the 2010 deadline - including a bigger role for the private sector. But the 1980s regeneration of the Redriff Estate in London Docklands may already hold the answer.
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Archive TitlesGet in the mix
Mixed-use schemes are enjoying a renaissance - spurred on by the sustainable communities agenda. Swanke Hayden Connell Architects explains the practical design and development considerations
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Cutting it fine
Environmental legislation coming into force in 2006 will put the pressure on housebuilders to cut carbon emissions. So how can you clean up your act?