This series tracks and highlights the most important initiatives and the policy issues that must be addressed to enable future generations to live healthier and more prosperous urban lives
Sadiq Khan’s proposal argues that famous shopping thoroughfare requires ‘major regeneration’
The city’s mood has shifted from disaster mitigation to opportunity
Group behind proposed £750mn scheme near Thameside town will ask for review of Bucks council decision
From Dubai to Mumbai, cities are having to adapt to hotter summers, often exacerbating economic inequality in the process
The designer’s extravagant and wildly varying creations left an enduring legacy of buildings and parks that are now integral to the identity of the city
Swapping the car for the tree has not been a universally popular strategy
The postwar ‘new town’ movement is being resurrected by Labour to skirt the UK’s planning straitjacket — but more could be done
GM and Ford hope to revive the city’s pride through projects centred on two iconic sites
What can be learnt from the pioneers who turned abandoned lofts into the creative heart of the city?
Official borderlines are strange and arbitrary things, both administratively and in our imaginations
Pandemic predictions that the daily journey to work would die off are greatly exaggerated, according to FT analysis
Red tape must be slashed to meet the UK’s demand for housing and infrastructure
It’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
Levelling up department to consult on proposals to clear hurdles for developers of brownfield sites in 20 cities
French capital seen as a trendsetter on mobility, with ballot pitched as test of tolerance for ‘monsters on wheels’
England needs to build 300,000 homes a year. Ahead of the UK election, the sacrosanct land around cities is at the centre of a politically fraught debate
A global advisory body that joins up science with the management of cities is urgently needed
In a new book, a social scientist offers a witty and sceptical view of our obsession with greenery in urban spaces
Digital city-building has become a legitimate part of urban planning, helping to mirror the present — and map the future
Urban areas must rapidly become more resilient to rising temperatures
Politicians agree that shaking up the planning system is vital to the British economy, but Nimby-ism is stubbornly resilient
Madison Square Garden Entertainment criticises process to win approval for 90 metre-high venue as ‘political football’
The northern English city is being transformed by new residential skyscrapers that dwarf its 19th-century heritage
Two books look at the urban environment past and present — and ask how it will evolve in the 21st century
