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 The Thames Gateway landscape has nothing if not potential
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This is a series of events and articles about Selling the Thames Gateway

The Building Centre Trust is hosting a series of events themed as Selling the Thames Gateway, organised with audacity.org. We will build this section of the website through transcripts and articles, and invite contributions.

Will Alsop's superficial Supercities scenario Will Alsop's superficial Supercities scenario

Worth building on and saving - Thames Gateway is both ugly and beautiful Worth building on and saving - Thames Gateway is both ugly and beautiful

Who wants communities? Who wants communities?

Click here for Homes 2016 by James Woudhuysen and Ian Abley, the first Broadside supplement from Blueprint

Events in the Selling the Thames Gateway series

What is a Sustainable Community - and would I want to live there? Click to visit the event index of speaker presentations At the first event in Selling the Thames Gateway, organised with the Building Centre Trust, we began by asking What is a Sustainable Community - and would I want to live there?

Click to visit the index of speaker presentations for More than Mudflats and Microflats - the Thames Gateway landscapeThis next event considers the floodplain of the estuary, and the habitable landscape that might be created while saving the best wetlands. More than Mudflats and Microflats - the Thames Gateway landscape.
Will Alsop might find a place in the Thames Gateway

Themes related to Selling the Thames Gateway

For a more forthright criticism of the planning restrictions on land supply read John Stewart's report - 'Building a Crisis' Government adviser and Housing Economist for the House Builders Federation, John Stewart, has long argued that successive governments have been clearly responsible for building a crisis in housing undersupply. We publish his argument in this section.

For an index of articles and reports on the government's Barker Review of Housing Undersupply, click hereHaving apparently accepted the argument that there is chronic housing undersupply, and particularly so in the South East of England, the government has commissioned Kate Barker to assess the predicament.

We publish a series of articles about the Review assumptions and conclusions.

Click here to browse our columnists on the Activity pageSimply browse the articles from our columnists, generally accessible through the left hand series of portrait photographs.

Critical feedback is welcome, and you too might want to become a columnist on this website. Send an email to Ian Abley for advice.

View James Heartfield on the London Programme

Click here to view the London Programme - Visions of 3 October 2003 in which James Heartfield challenges the urban cramming orthodoxy of current planning policy

James Heartfield argued for living space in The London Programme of 3 October 2003. Presented by Phil Gayle for London Weekend Television, the programme discusses the current Visions for the future of London. It provides an excellent summary of the polarities and tensions of present day development thinking. Featuring contributions from architect Lord Richard Rogers, the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Piers Gough, Rowan Moore, Bill Dunster, Eric Reynolds, and Kevin Fitzgerald of the Campaign to Protect Rural England - among many others - the programme serves as an excellent educational introduction to the planning issues facing London and the wider South East.
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