Housing
Power to the people: evidencing true social value
Only by talking and listening to those whose lives they are hoping to change can housing organisations understand the ‘true’ social value of their work, say Jenny Rouse and Matt Bowen
In the current economic environment, housing associations are making difficult decisions on how to spend limited resources in communities decimated by public spending cuts and rising inequalities.
Utopias that work: How to create tomorrow’s garden city
An aerial vision of how Oxford might grow according to Urbed’s Garden City vision
Winner of the Wolfson Economics Prize for their vision of a 21st century garden city, Urbed’s Nicholas Falk talks through his winning entry and urges new garden cities to capture the ‘common wealth’ for local good
Winner of the Wolfson Economics Prize for their vision of a 21st century garden city, Urbed’s Nicholas Falk talks through his winning entry and urges new garden cities to capture the ‘common wealth’ for local good
A conference in Letchworth Garden City, like the event on Common Good Placemaking held in early September, inevitably creates a positive feeling that through common or shared efforts anything is possible. Yet the reality of Letchworth, and subsequent failed attempts, is that good intentions are not enough to create a utopia in a market driven world.
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