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Consultations have been opened by TfL on the next massive British tunnelling project – another radial railway line for London.  The Assembly asked for experts to give evidence and this is my initial effort. At the end is a comment from Peter Hall. Continue reading “Crossrail2 (aka Chelsea-Hackney line)”

6 May 2013 This is part of a Twitter exchange (reproduced below) with @Frances_Coppola and econgirl (@raluca3000) My comment that the beginnings of housing price escalation in some German cities should be ‘nipped in the bud’ met the response “how?”

I can’t reply in 140 characters so here is a longer one:

Surely a combination of some or all of the following should do it: Continue reading “How to nip German house price rises in the bud”

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung #rosalux international meeting. One morning worksop and one in the afternoon. http://www.rosalux.de/event/48108/cross-solidarity-internationale-solidaritaet-in-der-krise.html Some English material at http://cross-solidarity.net/wordpress/?page_id=558

The first part of this is notes on a Workshop “we are all bank tenants”. Later are notes on a second workshop. Do not rely on an statistics or other stuff in here: check with original authors etc. Please do send me corrections or add them as comments at the end.  M

Continue reading “Wuppertal seminar "cross_solidarity"”

BEWARE: these are rough notes made as we go along. Do not quote or rely on accuracy until I have checked…

Essen 25 April Continue reading “Essen meeting: RETHINKING CROSS-URBAN SOLIDARITY”

Planning Committee debating London’s future growth, with guest experts. Discussing a paper which is item 5 in

http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=258&MId=4645

Webcast supposed to be at http://www.london.gov.uk/webcasts/30883/asx tho I can’t make it work. At the end of this post is a letter I just sent to the Chair, Nicky Gavron. Comments welcome

Niky Gavron starts on how we can cope with another million people each decade on present terms.

John Hollis (demographer) stresses that 2011 Census found 1/4 more net international migrants than thought (tho it didn’t explain their status). Continue reading “GLA Assembly debates future growth”

Andy Inch sheffield introducing the manifesto on land and planning drafted by the Planners Network UK. It’s not finished and only a start. It represents as far as we could get among a few of us 4±2…and needs more inputs now.  Public Interest securely at the front, challenging neo-liberal perspectives on urban and regional policy. Continue reading “pnuk Sheffield launch meeting”

At a seminar on reindustrialisation. My notes for talk are

Recall Sam Aaronovich’s London/Berlin conference 1995 at the end of which a Berling green part politician said  “capitalism won’t employ us all: we’ll have to employ each other”. Continue reading “re-industrialisation”

This was a meeting at the TCPA to launch – to a mainly planning gathering – a manifesto drafted by PNUK for a more progressive approach to planning and land in the UK.  Bob Colenutt in the chair. Everyone had been encouraged to read the document in advance  – and most seemed to have done so. Great.

Continue reading “Planning manifesto launch”