But economic and cultural forces mean dense housing is harder to develop than low-rise sprawl.
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Lack of public transport and limited availability of schools, childcare facilities or GP surgeries are making life harder in new developments.
Larger developments can bring new schools and roads – but they are also prone to severe delays.
Labour has made a pledge to build 1.5 million new homes one of its key commitments, but can it be done in just five years?
Imagining new kinds of places to live is an American tradition.
It’s not all about the gym and your diet. The places where we live and work shape our health, too.
Garden cities are the best of town and country combined and could be part of the answer to the housing crisis.
A plan to resolve the UK’s housing crisis by adding garden city extensions to 40 towns and cities has won a prestigious economic prize. Urban designer David Rudlin was last night awarded the £250,000 Wolfson…
Every few years the ideals of Ebenezer Howard’s garden city utopia are resurrected in an attempt by the UK government to create new communities, and address the country’s housing crisis. Sometimes this…
If you build it, they will come. They will come because of its proximity to London – even if it now exists “only as a flying bishop, a large station, a dream horse and the future”, as Ebbsfleet was described…
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