City of London tightens rules on skyscrapers over wind tunnel fears
Developers will have to modify designs deemed likely to affect cyclists and pedestrians
Posts Tagged 'Planning policy'
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower. By Oliver Wainwright
The £3bn rebirth of King’s Cross: dictator chic and pie-in-the-sky penthouses
Google HQ, boutique shops in old coal sheds, gasholders offering wedge-shaped flats at sky-high prices … as the vast project comes together after 18 years, our critic gives his verdict
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?
If women built cities, what would our urban landscape look like?
The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very, very male-dominated’ worlds of planning and construction. So how would cities differ if women designed them?
World’s largest power-generating lagoon planned for Swansea Bay
Tidal Lagoon Power submits application for first of five projects it says can meet 10% of UK’s power needs – if it is subsidised