All Opinion articles – Page 29
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OpinionTime to stop going down the garden path and come up with a strategy
Solving the housing crisis is not just a numbers game: it requires proactive planning. Jeff Nottage urges the government to abandon opportunism and get serious
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OpinionA towering mess that the government has the power - but not the will - to address
We must act to shape the market or we’ll have a skyscraper glut and still no affordable housing, warns Hank Dittmar
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OpinionWhy so many English picnics happen in motorway lay-bys
The people’s exclusion from Arcadia should be a national scandal, says Leon Krier. Instead we seem happy to settle for a handkerchief-size garden
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OpinionYou've got to laugh or you'd cry
Gillian Darley aims to cheer with her trawl through the funniest architecture in literature
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OpinionLessons from competitive Paris
London’s next mayor would do well to look across the Channel, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionWhat Brexit might mean for architects
It’s hard to separate the facts from the rhetoric, but on balance the profession will probably be best served by the UK remaining in the EU, says BD editor Thomas Lane
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OpinionWatch out, planners: You're in the government's crosshairs
Architect-turned-developer Crispin Kelly detects the stamping foot of a crotchety minister demanding, ‘More houses, or else’
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OpinionWhy no one has a good word to say for the Housing & Planning Bill
The government could learn a lot from the history of urbanism in Paris, London - and China, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionJust because the Powell & Moya site is available doesn't mean it's the right place for a concert hall
London should think carefully about where to build its newest cultural venue. And Leon Krier’s Regent’s Park proposal beats Boris’s commercial opportunism, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionWhy the Starter Homes Programme is a non-starter
Discounted starter homes could distort the market and make it difficult for first time buyers to sell on says Julia Park.
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OpinionNo room for sheltered housing in the new look East London
Gillian Darley says Sainsbury’s proposed Whitechapel development which towers over a grade I listed almshouse is a metaphor for the loss of East London’s traditional urban fabric
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OpinionCan't get no satisfaction from Instagram architecture
A generation ago graduates were designing social housing projects not pop-ups, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionPlanning is for people, not just Boris
If the government is still serious about localism its Housing & Planning Bill needs to demonstrate it, says BD editor Thomas Lane
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OpinionOn beginning part III
Don’t mention the money! Our student columnist asks why the business of practice doesn’t get a look-in until the very end of an architect’s education
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OpinionAre we serious about estate regeneration?
If so the government needs to invest a lot more money and put communities before developers, argues Hank Dittmar
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OpinionHow the government is killing off the 1947 Town & Country Planning Act
Piece by piece, politicians are dismantling the basic tenets of evidence-based local planning, argues planning expert Duncan Bowie
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OpinionDear Greg Clark, how will opening up planning to competition actually work?
Mike Kiely, chair of the Planning Officers Society, examines the implications of allowing private firms to assess planning applications
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OpinionWhat Yorkshire monks could teach the Environment Agency about flooding
Gillian Darley uncovers a story of hope – and beavers – amid the devastation in the north
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OpinionDoes the government have any idea what it is unleashing on the planning system?
The Housing Planning Bill will make planning worse not better, argues former planning inspector David Vickery
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OpinionReshuffling parliament, the vanishing concert hall – and that bridge
Amanda Baillieu dusts off her crystal ball and gazes into 2016