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Owen Hatherley

High Lines and park life: why more green isn’t always greener for cities

December 28, 2019February 3, 2014 by Editorial Team

Transforming old industrial areas into urban woodland may look nice but can be conterproductive in the long run

Categories Gourmet, Green, Sport & Health Tags architecture, Art and design, Article, Chamberlain Gardens in Birmingham, cities green space, cities vegetation, city park, Corbusian Radiant Cities, Environment, Farming, Features, garden city, green cities, green space, Guardian Cities, High Lines, Le Corbusier's city plans, London Olympic Park, MVRDV, Owen Hatherley, park life, parks, Pig City, Radiant City, recycled energy power statio, Roman city, the future of the city, The New Urbanists, Thomas Heatherwick, urban farming, Urbanisation, vertical farm, vertical garden, vertical pig farm, Welwyn Garden City

London is a property developers’ paradise. And ordinary people are being priced out

December 31, 2019November 20, 2013 by Editorial

That we are heading for a crisis is not in doubt, but the huge rents on the government’s Build to Rent scheme are hardly going to help

Categories Real Estate Tags Article, Buying to let, Canary Wharf, Comment, Comment is free, Hertsmere Tower, Housing, housing market, London, luxury real estate in London, Owen Hatherley, Property, real estate London, real estate market in UK, Renting property

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