Category Archives: Regeneration

UK Government Widens ‘City Deals’ Proposal

Posted on January 28, 2012 by thebuiltenvironmentblog

When one talks of ‘City Deals’ today, most people immediately see red at the thought of huge payouts in the financial services sector. However, in this case at least, the term refers to the latest incarnation of the government’s continued drive for economic growth and regeneration … Continue reading →

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New Year, Old Problems and (some) New Solutions.

Posted on January 8, 2012 by thebuiltenvironmentblog

The first week of 2012 is over. Having now consolidated resolutions which almost certainly won’t be maintained, it seemed like a good time to reflect on the previous year and also make some predictions and observations on the issues likely to impact the … Continue reading →

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Industrial Plight – How One Midwest Town may Hold the Answer to the Regeneration of Industrial Small Town America.

Posted on December 29, 2011 by thebuiltenvironmentblog

As an outsider visiting the town of Holyoke, a small town in Western Massachusetts recently, my first impressions of the town weren’t initially of its underlying socio-economic problems, but rather, of the impressive but now derelict and gradually decaying shells … Continue reading →

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Pulling the Plug – The Uncertain Future of Battersea Power Station.

Posted on December 11, 2011 by thebuiltenvironmentblog

Iconic benchmark of British industrial architecture or an archaic throwback occupying prime Central London development land? Whatever your views of the site at Battersea, although its coal-fired turbines stopped producing electricity over 25 years ago, the now derelict, Grade-II* listed power … Continue reading →

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