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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.
As part of our Building recovery programme, this roundtable aimed to highlight the key challenges facing the sector when it comes to prioritising fairness in recovery. Our multi-disciplinary panel gave their reflections on the sector’s urgent priorities with key themes around procurement, diversity and skills gaps.
How can the built environment create community connections? Practical reflections from the online launch or our People, Place and Community report
Press Release: New report reveals how home and neighbourhood design influences community recovery from Covid – and what city makers can do about it.
Community hubs are an important element of social infrastructure, but, as physical meeting spaces, they have experienced huge challenges during the pandemic. Using Acton Gardens Community Centre as a case study, we reflect on the role of community hubs in typical times’, and ask how they can continue to support communities as we navigate the ‘new normal’.
In this podcast we ask Bethan Harris from The Loneliness Lab and Stephanie Goldberg from the GLA: how can we build community within the context of Covid-19?
On 25 April, FoL’s roundtable heard approaches and experiences of procuring social value in London – does the capital need a regional pact?
Launched on 11 December, Overcoming London’s Barriers, shares practical approaches to addressing barriers and their impacts, collected through a year of research and discussion with cross-sector practitioners throughout London.
OnLondon commentator Dave Hill closed our 2018 conference on Overcoming Barriers. Here’s a summary of his comments and a link to the conference summary.
Our November conference takes a two-pronged approach to identifying effective ways forward in estate regeneration: at the strategic level and at the front line.