While the majority of the world’s population live in cities, there’s no shortage of small cities in the world. But what makes a city varies, with some assigned formal status for reasons that ...
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Considered to be either a single urban region home to two major cities or one of the world’s most densely populated countries, the Southern European island nation of Malta is densely packed how...
Back in the distant time of April 2017, online food delivery company Deliveroo launched ‘Deliveroo Editions’ – kitchens where chain-restaurant chefs cooked side by side in shared units set ...
On September 19th 2022, a food bank in Wimbledon, London, closed for a public holiday. If you’re lucky enough to not already know, food banks are typically non-profit organisations, staffed by ...
The concept of acquiring naming rights to urban infrastructure will be familiar to most residents of today’s neoliberal cities. In an economic system where everything has a financial value, mar...
Can creativity transform urban design and planning? That was the question that drew me to the recent event Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A Coalition of Arts, Music & Architecture, an...
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 ...
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 Pla...
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 cor...