A controversial new city project in northern California has echoes of past utopian plans – but idealism and commercial reality have always been uneasy partners.
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It’s time for governments to think long-term about the kind of places they want to create.
Garden cities are the best of town and country combined and could be part of the answer to the housing crisis.
The government’s announcement that Bicester in Oxfordshire will be the site of a second new garden city, with plans for large-scale investment in housing and infrastructure should be exciting news. But…
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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Professor of Environmental Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in Sociology and Co-Director of CURB, the Centre for Urban Research, University of York
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Professor of Urban Form and Society, UCL
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Architect and lecturer, University of Liverpool
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ESRC Research Fellow for Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Cardiff University
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Head of Urbanism, Centre for Sustainable Communities, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
