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  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Edwin Heathcote
    We need ‘loose-fit’ architecture that adapts to the times

    History shows how buildings can be designed for both flexibility and longevity

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Africa’s looming urban population explosion

    The continent’s cities will expand fast this century — as will the challenges they face

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Radical neighbourhood redevelopment model splits opinion in Tokyo

    Mori Building pioneered developing large areas of the city, attracting interest across Asia

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    All change for the future of urban transport

    Planners must balance post-Covid change, environmental concerns and new technology

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    San Francisco’s battle to bring a digital city back to real life

    How can the tech hub entice remote workers to return downtown after the pandemic?

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    New York landmark is reinvented for the interactive age

    One Times Square is being rethought for a new era of advertising and tourism

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Edwin Heathcote
    What history and Covid tell us about building healthy cities

    Lessons from the ancients, the modernists and the experience of the pandemic

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Cities innovate to shrink their environmental footprints

    Urban areas are a large part of the problem — but also central to the energy transition

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    Architecture
    Royal Academy Architecture Prize goes to Renée Gailhoustet

    Her work in the Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine gave choice and diversity to inhabitants

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    The cheap, green, low-tech solution for the world’s megacities

    Poorer megacities tend to be designed for rich people who can afford cars. Bikes are the answer

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    UK property
    Billionaire Ivy owner breached planning rules with Kensington mansion development

    Richard Caring served enforcement notice by London council over ‘incongruous and dominant additions’ to Park House

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Are low-traffic neighbourhoods good for our cities?

    London’s ‘LTN’ schemes show the difficulty of achieving behavioural change that could help us reach net zero

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    City of London
    City of London plans to reinvent Square Mile as ‘fun’ 24/7 district

    City’s policy chief looks to stage music and arts festivals in recognition of post-pandemic ‘new normal’

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Gaming
    The thrill of city-building games — from blocked sewers to rewilding

    ‘SimCity’ launched the genre, but newer titles such as ‘Terra Nil’ and ‘Lichenia’ are more environmentally minded

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Edwin Heathcote
    Channelling the Nimby spirit won’t fix Britain’s housing problems

    Government proposals allowing residents to vote on new developments are full of holes

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Why did we stop building beautiful neighbourhoods?

    Governments lack the incentive, businesses usually lack the power and ​​almost everyone seems to lack the skill

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Japanese society
    Kyoto to tax empty houses as Japan’s population shrinks

    Local authorities target 15,000 homes that have been abandoned and left to rot after owners died

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    Henry Mance
    Solving our road rage will take more than a new Highway Code

    If we can stop cyclists and cars competing for the same tarmac, maybe travel will become less heated

  • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
    How sprawling suburbs are stunting productivity in UK cities

    Weak transport links and low-density housing have made Britain’s urban hubs less pleasant places to live than their EU counterparts

  • Saturday, 15 January, 2022
    News in-depthEgypt
    ‘City of the Dead’ faces being bulldozed in Cairo’s highway drive

    Historic graves to be removed in government building programme to ease traffic congestion

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    Henry Mance
    Car users don’t have an inalienable right to occupy public space

    Quiet residential streets and clean air should not be treated as luxuries

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    London 1870-1914 by Andrew Saint — capital losses and gains

    The story of the city as a centre for commerce and consumption has lessons for today’s urban planners

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    House & Home
    The road to ruin — how the car drove US cities to the brink

    Car-centric infrastructure turned many into unwalkable wastelands. Planners now look to prewar cities to find inspiration for the future

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Robert Wright
    The car is still king in COP26’s host city

    Poor planning has left Glasgow intersected by highways that divide neighbourhoods and make travel without a car tricky

  • Sunday, 26 September, 2021
    LexNew York City
    New York jams: traffic takes a toll Premium content

    Authorities should design a scheme that protects vulnerable New Yorkers

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