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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. 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 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. A sideways glance at the Byzantine workings of government in the housing sector. Just because we might meet the former doesn't mean we don't need the latter. Constructive ideas from the East China needs new homes – don't we all? Plans for the Thames Gateway say much about where housing policy has got to. Too many blueprints for the home of the future begin from the interior. They should start from the factory. Time to build a fresh, non-nimby approach to boosting new housing We should have more stigma-free prefab homes |
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