Real Estate Investment Trusts for Social Housing

http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2012-03-25-2013-will-see-first-social-housing-UK-REIT

Heartfelt song about town planning from Hull...

RTPI view on NPPF

National Planning Policy Framework March 2012

And its out.... lets debate after Easter break


http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/nppf

City Hall, London

photo By Reza Hakimi | sep 2011

Hulme, Manchester - Urban compost

Planning and the Major House Builder ‘Benefit Junkies’

"a bit like asking the fox to look after the chickens"
http://chrisbrown.regen.net/2012/02/28/planning-and-the-major-house-builder-%E2%80%98benefit-junkies%E2%80%99/

LowLine: An Underground Park on NYC's Lower East Side

New York designers plans to transform an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into the world’s first underground park using green design technologies, like fiber optic cables to bring natural sunlight underground

Project video
Project website

Can a font help a city make a comeback?

/http://www.good.is/post/can-a-font-help-a-city-make-a-comeback/

Stairs in Soho