Urban focus UK


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Action Ideas

 * Cittaslow, slow cities
 * Rainwater harvesting
 * City farms
 * Sustainable Tower Blocks

New Ideas

 * Urban Citizen Forestry

Why it matters
Most humans now live in cities. The quality of urban life therefore considerably defines the quality of human life.

Random facts

 * 86% of fly-tipping (in England) takes place in predominantly urban authorities where 63%  of people in England live. Source: Defra
 * The (UK) Government's Headline indicator of air pollution shows that since 1997, the number of days of High air pollution in urban areas has roughly halved from 40 days in 1997 to 22 in 2005. Source: Defra, November 3 2006

Related topics

 * Urban & village design
 * category:City
 * Spatial planning
 * Local needs met locally
 * Cities and biodiversity

Related Wikipedia content

 * Urbanisation
 * wikipedia:Category:Urban studies and planning
 * Urban planning
 * City region

News UK

 * Thursday, March 23 2006, Work starts on Manchester’s first urban water park.
 * Wednesday, February 22 2006 - "Birmingham and Manchester need mayors with tax and spend powers", says thinktank, ippr press release
 * 'Cities need families' but lack of suitable homes may hinder plans to revive urban areas, January 18 2006
 * City centres should stay ‘young, free and single’, January 11 2006
 * Living Streets welcomes plans for a London Beach next summer, November 2 2005

Comment

 * Tuesday, March 6 2007 - UK urban policy "too timid", Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution / Saving our cities, CPRE News release
 * Tuesday, February 27 2007 - Urban land wasted says CPRE research / Spatial planning news UK and comment

UK links

 * Creative Spaces includes a toolkit for particpatory urban design