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While the majority of the world’s population live in cities, there’s no shortage of small cities in the world. But what makes a city varies, with some assigned formal status for reasons that ...

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Looking for the best urban planning quotes? You’ve come to the right place. A good quote can provide insight into another person’s way of thinking, inspire your own work, support research, o...

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Considered to be either a single urban region home to two major cities or one of the world’s most densely populated countries, the Southern European island nation of Malta is densely packed how...

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Back in the distant time of April 2017, online food delivery company Deliveroo launched ‘Deliveroo Editions’ – kitchens where chain-restaurant chefs cooked side by side in shared units set ...

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On September 19th 2022, a food bank in Wimbledon, London, closed for a public holiday. If you’re lucky enough to not already know, food banks are typically non-profit organisations, staffed by ...

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The concept of acquiring naming rights to urban infrastructure will be familiar to most residents of today’s neoliberal cities. In an economic system where everything has a financial value, mar...

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Can creativity transform urban design and planning? That was the question that drew me to the recent event Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A Coalition of Arts, Music & Architecture, an...

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On the 24th of April 2020, the requirement in Scottish planning to undertake in-person community consultation before larger planning applications are made was suspended as a result of the impact ...

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Le Corbusier and Ebenezer Howard are staples of urban design theory. Both believed they were proposing solutions to the negative impact of industrialisation on cities, yet Howard – an Urban Pla...

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Neoliberalism, as the name suggests, is a new form of liberalism, pitched by its originating scholars as a societal model where free markets were prioritised over government intervention. Its cor...

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