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Cities unlimited

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London Policy Exchange 2008ISBN:
  • 9781906097288
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 711.52 $2 18
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Partial contents:
Introduction -- Cities limited -- Success and the city -- Reactions to our work -- Things will only get worse -- We cannot accept this -- What can we do? -- Expanding London -- It will not just be London -- Economic geography outside of the South East -- Setting cities free -- What could cities do? -- Coping with population decline -- Improving governance -- Conclusion
Summary: This controversial report proposes the building of one million houses in Cambridge, Oxford and London with the supposed aim of preventing a widening of the gap between the North and South of the UK. Other measures suggested include stopping funding for regeneration projects and allowing local government to spend funds allocated however they see fit.
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Introduction -- Cities limited -- Success and the city -- Reactions to our work -- Things will only get worse -- We cannot accept this -- What can we do? -- Expanding London -- It will not just be London -- Economic geography outside of the South East -- Setting cities free -- What could cities do? -- Coping with population decline -- Improving governance -- Conclusion

This controversial report proposes the building of one million houses in Cambridge, Oxford and London with the supposed aim of preventing a widening of the gap between the North and South of the UK. Other measures suggested include stopping funding for regeneration projects and allowing local government to spend funds allocated however they see fit.