A smart revolution
A new movement that combines technology and property is sweeping the global development scene. Sarah Townsend investigates
View ArticleUrban prophet: Richard Florida
Richard Florida is the thought leader of the “Future Cities” movement that is redefining global real estate. Claer Barrett met him. Photographs by Nick Cunard
View ArticleElectric car drivers will be on cloud nine
Dublin’s electric car drivers will use “cloud” technology to charge their vehicles, under a new IT system that will manage public charge points across the city.
View ArticleDublin tests technologies to improve city’s connectivity
In the first of a monthly series exploring how certain cities are pursuing the “smart” agenda, Sarah Townsend reports on Dublin
View ArticleGreen Corridor is Nice regeneration
Developers in Nice, France, have begun work on the second phase of a scheme to create a 30 acre urban park in the centre of the city.
View ArticleArmstrong trumpets broadband boost
Former RICS chief and Hyperoptic target 30 sites to upgrade in London. Sarah Townsend reports
View ArticleQ+A: Will Self, 'professor of placemaking'
Property Week met novelist Will Self last week at FutureTowns, a smart cities event hosted by Cathedral Group, held in a temporary studio at the group and Development Securities’ Old Vinyl Factory...
View ArticleHeseltine urges Thames Gateway growth
Report calls for new public-private development corporation
View ArticleThurrock breathes life into Purfleet regeneration plans
Thurrock District Council is reviving plans to create a new town centre for Purfleet, Essex.
View ArticleBBC watches energy output
Technology to measure carbon and waste to be piloted at Media City UK
View ArticleCreative classes are remodelling our urban fabric
In the mid-1990s, the late Honor Chapman — my boss at London’s nascent inward-investment agency — asked me to follow a hunch.
View Article‘Pocket’ Barcelona brings council services to people
Council’s tech leader describes innovations to improve quality of life.
View ArticleLondon’s competitiveness depends on being well connected
The blurring boundaries between work and home used to be about balance. Now “the merge” is a more apt description of how our work and social lives melt into one.
View ArticleBREEAM ‘excellent’ MK1 retail park signs final few occupiers
H&M and River Island latest to take space at energy-efficient park. Sarah Townsend reports
View ArticleOlympic Games ‘failed people of east London’
The organisers of the 2012 Olympics have come under fire for failing to ensure east London profited during the games.
View ArticleHow New York fast-tracked High Line
New York City planning chief used powers to create urban park
View ArticleDe Haan’s latest weapon in ‘war’ against e-tail
Retailcommon, the mobile marketing platform co-founded by shopping centres expert Arnold de Haan, has expanded its co-operation agreement with €14bn Dutch asset manager Syntrus Achmea.
View ArticleMoscow masterplans south-west super-suburbs
Huge expansion of city planned over next 30 years. Property Week reports from Moscow.
View ArticleFarrell predicts wave of new town centres in London
London must plan for new “town centres” in years to come, as additional transport hubs are built and out-of-town shopping centres poach high street stores.
View ArticleIn pictures: Moscow's housing dream
“Moscow’s housing problems began when the city built “microrayons”: faceless boxes of poor-quality accommodation on which today’s construction standards are based.”
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