Everybody loses in the battle of 'community' versus City planners
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Planning has been popular with politicians ever since the first Town and Country Planning Act of 1990. It is the word 'planning' that seems to retain its urgency, conjuring up images from H G Wells' Things to Come, in which a wretched old Victorian bombed-into-the Stone-Age Britain is 'turned around' by a new race of no-nonsense planners until it looks more like the Eiffel Tower on millennium night.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2004
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Radical housing speech elicits wave of politeness from planners
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The author describes a speech he gave before the students at the RTPI summer school in Exeter. He outlined his vision for a new rural landscape, which was not well-received.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2001
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Free up the 'equity' in housing and the economy will pick up the slack
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A slowdown in the volume of house trading is carried out for protecting the value of houses in Britain. The problems faced by the housing markets in Britain are highlighted.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2003
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