Reaching more than a thousand feet into the air, The Shard was hailed as one of the wonders of the age when it was completed. Yet Britain’s tallest building is almost entirely empty, as its owners struggle to find buyers and tenants for its offices and luxury flats. As our picture shows, London’s 72-storey skyscraper
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High-rise housing should be replaced by streets of terrace homes says Policy Exchange set up by planning minister. Modernist tower blocks should be demolished and replaced with streets of terrace houses and low-rise flats that people actually want to live in, an influential Conservative think tank will claim on Thursday. Policy Exchange, set up by
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Contrary to what most people believe, the courts do not care how atrocious The Millennium project is for Hollywood. The courts do not care if every conclusion in the EIR for the Millennium is wrong. “The court does not pass upon the correctness of the EIR’s environmental conclusions, but only upon its sufficiency as an
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Many retro-urban theorists maintain that high density is the key to urban prosperity. These theorists often point for justification to Santa Fe Institute research that, they claim, links productivity with density. Yet in reality it does nothing of the kind. Instead the study emphasizes that population size, not compactness, is the decisive factor. Size does
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Rhode Island’s tallest building will soon be its most visible symbol of the state’s long economic decline. The 26-story Art Deco-style skyscraper, known to some as the “Superman building” for its similarity to the Daily Planet headquarters in the old TV show, is losing its sole tenant this month. No one is moving in, and
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by Richard Lee Abrams Tuesday, April 2, 2013 There is only one way to stop the Millennium and that is for the judge to throw out the new Hollywood Community Plan. The plan was basically written to allow The Millennium to build anything it wants with no regard to input from residents. While it is
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The New South Wales government has proposed a new Metropolitan Strategy for the Sydney area which would significantly weaken the urban containment policy (also called urban consolidation, smart growth, livability, growth management, densification, etc.) that has driven if house prices to among the highest in the affluent New World (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the
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By Kate Linthicum, Ben Welsh and Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, November 15, 2012 Waits for 911 medical aid vary dramatically across Los Angeles and many of the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods have the longest response times, according to a Times investigation. Under national standards adopted by the Los Angeles Fire Department, rescuers are
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Why Californians are Moving Manhattan Institute For Policy Research Study names density from “smart growth” as a leading cause of net population loss in Los Angeles. The Density Factor As California saw its economy struggle, it was also becoming a more crowded state. At some point late in the last century, people moving to California
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The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce on Thursday said that it engaged the law firm of Sheppard Mullin to intervene in lawsuits challenging the Hollywood Community Plan update. “We want to ensure that no action is taken that would stop people from securing permits for their businesses and developments in accordance with the approved community plan
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