How are protected views shaping cities?
In the battle between heritage and development, we face a ‘crisis of verticality’. But does an approach to planning based on protected views just turn the city into a museum?
Housing
Bright lights, big trees: Dutch designer imagines an ‘urban forest’
City links: Blueprints for a neighbourhood of tree houses and smiley-face signals to reduce road rage feature in this week’s best city stories
Too damn high: Manhattan average apartment prices reach record of $1.87m
- Trend of renting over buying driving up real estate prices by 11% from 2014
- 99% of borough’s apartments and homes available for rent are occupied
Paris can teach London how to swap skyscrapers for homes
Ignore the Triangle Tower – the French capital is tackling a housing shortage by building affordable homes, converting office space and introducing rent controls
My life inside the luxury real estate bubble
Taylor Antrim had a dream job being flown around the world to write about high-end property – but he missed the signs of an economic disaster in the making
‘No social housing’ boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors
Marketing material aimed at foreign investors provokes anger in one of London’s most deprived areas with thousands on social housing waiting lists