If at first you don’t succeed…is urban regeneration finally on the right track?

Town and city planning in the UK hasn't had the best of reputations over the last few decades. Visible consequences of the costly mistakes of the 1950s and 1960s - which took a top-down, car-centric approach towards remodelling our urban spaces - still linger across the country, despite demolition of some of the more infamous examples of modernist architecture. Those post-war "lost decades" mean regeneration became associated in the popular imagination with out-of-touch professionals imposing impractical, poorly thought out idea... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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