Newly Reborn Cities Must Be An Engine For Sustainable Growth
22 April 2004 - 12:00pm
A national centre dedicated to building sustainable communities is part of a British government scheme to modernise urban planning.
Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott wants to "re-educate planners and councillors so that they no longer allow housing estates or shopping centres to be dumped on the edge of towns or in the middle of the countryside." He wants councillors to "veto developments that lack the right mixture of houses, jobs, transport and other services," and "to redevelop regional cities on sustainable lines."
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Cities to lead quiet revolution
Source:
The Guardian Unlimited, April 20, 2004
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