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Future of London has unveiled its Building Recovery Recommendations report, containing strong, practical recommendations for creating a more inclusive city through recovery from the pandemic.
Reflecting on the past two years, it’s clear we need holistic, integrated solutions that put people at the heart of our thinking about the built environment. Through their Building Communities strategy, Countryside are taking a whole systems approach to improving the way they work with communities, to maximise social value in their projects and build sustainable, thriving places.
As part of Building recovery: closing the gap, we interviewed Sara Hanrahan from Lewis Silkin to find out how city makers can maximise use of the planning system and current levelling up agenda to address urban inequalities
In October 2018 Future of London launched the Council-led Housing Forum at the top of City Hall. The panoramic views across the capital reminded us how vast and diverse the character of the capital’s built environment is…
Our Building Recovery Conference sought to respond directly to the challenges the built environment sector is facing to create a fair and inclusive recovery from Covid. This summary provides the highlights and some practical tips for those wanting to have an impact on inequalities.
We take a look at the Friary Park regeneration scheme and the lessons we can learn to create affordable housing, informed by what residents want and need.
Frustrated by all those wasted rooftops? So was PTE’s Peter Watkins. Check out his proposal for a tool that could bring acres of dead space to life. Video, podcast & resources from around the world.
35% of Belfast’s population is aged 25 or under. With support from the Resilient Cities Network (previously 100 Resilient Cities), Arup’s award-winning Belfast Urban Childhoods Masterplan was created with and for Belfast City Council to support their aspirations to make the city centre attractive for families and young people. The Masterplan – winner of the Landscape Institute Awards 2020 ‘Excellence in … Read more
Launched today, the Building recovery: closing the gap insights report outlines the challenges of a fair recovery. Bringing together our research to date, it highlights the urgent priorities for city makers to address if we are to use recovery to create more equal urban environments.
In this Building recovery case study, we take a look at the award-winning Deptford Lounge transformation from Pollard Thomas Edwards and how this innovative approach to co-location is relevant in Covid-19 recovery as we seek to address widening inequalities within reduced budgets.
Want to see recovery in action? Check out Stockport. On a recent visit, we saw loads of support initiatives from repurposed retail to new public space to a pioneering town centre Mayoral Development Corp. The council is working on perception, but there’s real change behind it.
As part of our Building recovery: closing the gap programme, we surveyed our built environment network. The findings reveal the scale of our sector’s ambition for creating fairer cities and point to some key priorities for us to help reduce urban inequalities.