All Opinion articles – Page 60
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OpinionA developers’ plague on all our houses
This clumsy bid to streamline planning will bring a rash of crass, profitable ghettos
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OpinionPolicy is only half the story
The government ignores the need for investment and training in its eagerness to strip the red tape from the planning system
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OpinionNever have so many owed so much...
Discussions about planning policy reform risk getting bogged down in emotive rhetoric
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OpinionThe real cost of free schools
The government has just announced that the first 24 free schools are set to open in a couple of weeks, having involved a capital expenditure of somewhere between £110 and £130 million.
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OpinionWhen Delhi's Kingdom of Dreams is shut
India’s capital shows us the process of becoming a metropolis — and it isn’t pretty
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OpinionRight now, no one’s a winner
Adopting a new approach to competitions could save time and money – and offer better opportunities for young practices
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OpinionBuilding an escape from the ghetto
The results of the very rich living next to the very poor can be seen in Hackney and Clapham
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OpinionWill riots reshape our cities?
The past week’s events highlight the fact that a large minority is still excluded from the urban renaissance dream.
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OpinionEvery little independent victory helps
Modern or traditional – if a design is at odds with the local ethos it makes no difference
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AnalysisBack to normal?
At the end of a week that has witnessed the UK’s worst scenes of civil unrest in decades, urban planning expert Wouter Vanstiphout reflects on what the violence may mean for the future of Britain’s cities.
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OpinionTime to play the long game
The success of the Olympic project is about far more than next year’s three-week extravaganza
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OpinionTime is often the harshest critic
Completion dates may be the only things separating Stirlings from Carbuncles
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OpinionTicking all the wrong boxes
Hull University’s pre-qualification questionnaire shows how innovation is stifled in British architecture.
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OpinionArchitecture is dissolving into air
The tension between the permanent and the ephemeral is now central to all architecture
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OpinionThis Stirling shortlist favours the safe and generic
The usual suspects are once again honoured at the expense of truly stirring architecture.
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OpinionWhere is the masterplan?
Design Council Cabe’s efforts to cobble together a joint strategy for Vauxhall Cross are too little too late
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OpinionBeware starchitects bearing gifts
Much-vaunted showpiece schemes can often become a front for sneaking bad buildings in under the radar
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OpinionGenius can be a team effort
As the row over 30 St Mary Axe shows, building authorship is usually the result of a shared culture
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OpinionCreed has lit up the Scotsman Steps
An artistic intervention has succeeded in transforming a less than pleasant journey