It is fifteen years since Professor Sir Peter Hall and Dr Nicholas Falk drew on study tours run by the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) to Dutch and German urban extensions to recommend what needed to change in the UK. David Rudlin and Nicholas went on to apply lessons from cities such as Amersfoort and Freiburg to win the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize. They showed how a city like Oxford could double its population by applying garden city principles without depending on government subsidy. With a Labour Government committed to boosting economic growth and building affordable and sustainable homes, the URBED Trust has compiled articles from Town and Country Planning on practical solutions. Please read and ask yourself and your colleagues Why not now?
This document is a compilation of nine papers orginally published by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and reproduced in this report with their permission. Each article has links to other relevant material.
The new introduction provides a valuable summary and the final article, written by Richard Simmons in 2024, looks at how lessons from these articles could be combined with other opportunities to deliver growth and new homes faster.
Contents:
- Funding large-scale new settlements
- Urban policy and new economic powerhouses
- Achieving smarter growth in London and the South East
- Planning for posterity
- Location, location, location – funding investment in local infrastructure
- Sharing the uplift in land values (executive summary)
- Planning rapid transit for urban recovery
- Harnessing towns and cities for better growth
- Why not here?
- Six steps for accelerating delivery by Dr Richard Simmons
Authors: Nicholas Falk, Richard Simmons.
Publication date: July 2024
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