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Urbanisation

People and place; poverty and plenty

These are the stories of human movement and settlement. The COVID-19 crisis shone a light on liveability deficits across the urbanised world. For cities to remain engines of growth, opportunity and prosperity, there can be no more business as usual.

Climate-related stranded assets in real estate part 3: Attitudes, valuation and retrofit

Kevin Muldoon-Smith is Senior Lecturer and Paul Greenhalgh is Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration. Both are based at the Department for Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University. Martin Haran is Professor of Real Estate and Urban Studies at Ulster University. In the third of this four-part series, we spoke to the experts about the knock-on effects of stranding risk on value.

Climate-related stranded assets in real estate part 2: Is energy performance the best indicator?

Kevin Muldoon-Smith is Senior Lecturer and Paul Greenhalgh is Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration. Both are based at the Department for Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University. Martin Haran is Professor of Real Estate and Urban Studies at Ulster University. In the second of this four-part series, we spoke to the experts about risk, data availability, and the use of EPCs.

Climate-related stranded assets in real estate part 1: Driving change and de-risking real estate

Kevin Muldoon-Smith is Senior Lecturer and Paul Greenhalgh is Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration. Both are based at the Department for Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University. Martin Haran is Professor of Real Estate and Urban Studies at Ulster University. In the first of this four-part series, we spoke to the experts about the drivers and possible scale of stranding risk in real estate.

A more equitable future is within reach. First, we must harness the enormous potential of the 21st century’s people, places and spaces. #WBEF

Urbanisation

The History and Future of Places – Part 8: The death and rebirth of parochialism

Edward Relph is an Emeritus Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Place and Placelessness (Pion 1975), along with numerous other books, articles and chapters on place, sense of place and landscape. This week in The History and Future of Places , he considers how the principles of placemaking predominant since the Age of Reason are giving way to new philosophies.

Professor Edward Relph
14 May 2020

Urbanisation

The History and Future of Places – Part 7: Conservation and globalisation

Edward Relph is an Emeritus Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Place and Placelessness (Pion 1975), along with numerous other books, articles and chapters on place, sense of place and landscape. This week in The History and Future of Places, he looks at how places reconnected with their history in the latter stages of the 20th century.

Professor Edward Relph
30 April 2020