How to deliver the 'public good' without any 'public funds'....
The production of Local Plans is well outdated. Lengthy, expensive, obscure… The evidence of planning failure is all around us. In London, one of the richest and most dynamic cities in the world, there is shortage of housing, unreasonable living costs, real risks your kids will not have a school place unless you create a school yourself, cost-cutting driven hospital closures irrespective of needs, etc.
MARTINA JUVARA
on Friday, 02 October 2015.
Posted in 2015
We created a system that is now strangling our cities...
Traditional plan making is born of the Modern Period, when priorities were sanitation and housing for the poor. It has never been reconceptualised for the digital era. It is slow, bureaucratic and easily outdated. Is it still fit to deliver any ‘public good’?
MARTINA JUVARA
on Tuesday, 08 September 2015.
Posted in 2015
A journey of European discoveries
I was there to talk about Smart Planning . I was interested in what Smart City experts actually thought of the opportunities to have a different, dynamic and real-time, urban plan. Well, I had lots of conversations, some sceptical nods and some wide-open ‘revelation’-style bright eyes. Not much further insights, however….
MARTINA JUVARA
on Saturday, 05 September 2015.
Posted in 2015
