Tag: Housing

The belief that those who have lived in a community longest should have housing priority isn't racist

Lynsey Hanley's "intimate history" of British estates is strong on autobiography and social history, less so on the racial element of modern public housing

Britain's cities need to grow. It's time to start building on the green belt

The 2001 census was meant to be the most accurate picture ever of Britain's population. Then it found that there were nearly 1m fewer of us than expected.

Britain's biggest cities enjoyed a revival in the 1990s but people with money and choice continue fleeing to the suburbs and beyond

Where should Britain's homes go? Should we favour suburban expansion or inner city redevelopment?

More architects and city planners now subscribe to a kind of humane urbanism. But brutal modernism is not yet dead

Jeremy quizzes a group of mentally handicapped men and women about Glenn Hoddle's downfall

Jeremy Clarke has a dramatic bowel movement in an embarrassing place

Labour has abandoned equality but not the "excluded"-the three million people stuck on unpopular council estates. Their lives can be improved without a big increase in spending

Alfred Sherman attacks John Gummer's white paper on land use and his attempt to turn London into Barcelona