1-5 of 58 matching articles 5 20 100 All The Royal Docks: a third international business district for London? Zoe Green • 27 August 2013 The Royal Docks in east London were left behind by the containerisation of shipping. In the wake of the Olympics, planning efforts and business investment is once again focused on the area. Strange plans to gentrify Hackney will exacerbate inequality yet may create needed jobs Frances Brill • 6 August 2013 Frances Brill wonders whether the plans to deliberately gentrify the areas most affected by London's riots will target investment to the creation of badly needed jobs. Nationally significant infrastructure projects: Another dent in the UK's localism agenda? James Patterson-Waterston • 14 May 2013 With investment capital scarce after the global financial crisis, the UK's localism agenda is starting to look unaffordable, with campaigns to make all sorts of projects look like NSIPs to attract funding. Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities Lily Song • 29 April 2014 Lily Song learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope with emergency challenges which would be daunting even for the world's largest mega-cities. It's time to welcome the informal workforce to the urban policy table Caroline Skinner • 23 October 2012 Caroline Skinner demonstrates the significance of the world's informal workforce and lays out six priorities for integrating informal workers within urban planning processes. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12