Factory dormitories for workers, Brother Industries, Shenzhen, 2005
Here, at least, Chinese workers have a kind of a place to live. For millions of other Chinese, housing is non-existent
Picture: Ray Hatley

Housing

May 2006 | exclusive to Woudhuysen.com

Thames Gateway: when IT really matters

If the communications of the government are to be believed, a large-scale residential community such as Thames Gateway can be sustainable, yet devoid of IT. 46kb

December 2005 | Rising East

From urban regeneration to social engineering

The world’s cities are engaged in renewed competitive struggles with each other. But the strategies surrounding urban regeneration face a crisis of creativity

November 2005 | Prospect

The future is Asian, not tartan!

To upgrade its accommodation for a new century, what Scotland now needs is to re-examine the case for the mass manufacture of airy, light, high-ceilinged homes.

18 October 2005 | Newsletter of the Housing Forum

Rethinking regulation

A sideways glance at the Byzantine workings of government in the housing sector. 154kb

| Newsletter of the Housing Forum

Floods and housing

Just because we might meet the former doesn't mean we don't need the latter. 195kb

13 October 2005 | spiked

Constructive ideas from the East

China needs new homes – don't we all?

2 October 2005 | Website of Thomas Cole Kinder

Gateway to where?

Plans for the Thames Gateway say much about where housing policy has got to.

September 2004 | Supplement to Blueprint

Homes 2016

Too many blueprints for the home of the future begin from the interior. They should start from the factory. 200kB

30 January 2004 | The Times

Time to build a fresh, non-nimby approach to boosting new housing

We should have more stigma-free prefab homes 228kB

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