Smarter Urbanisation and Rapid Growth HFA March 2022September 2025 Nicholas Falk highlights the urgent need for cities to adapt swiftly to rapid growth, especially in mega-cities, by adopting smarter urban planning. The focus is on principles of social equity,...
Academy of Urbanism ‘Here & Now’ article series December 2018September 2025 A series of publications written by Nicholas Falk for the Academy of Urbanism’s Here & Now journal since 2015.
Growing Historic Cities September 2016September 2025 Summary of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgGu5xVzEo Full presentation by Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at St Peter’s College, Oxford University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjj6hUEPFYA...
Investing in the green recovery June 2009September 2025 The 2009 Budget heralded the prospects for city regions and for introducing “innovative financing mechanisms to support locally driven investment in growth and regeneration”. This paper summarises arguments for enabling county councils and unitary authorities to raise finance to achieve new (and “greener”) housing and local economic development in the right places through infrastructure bonds and “quality deals”. It builds on the pamphlet Funding Sustainable Communities, which reviews the options, and on recent research projects into US and European experience with infrastructure funding and regeneration.
