What makes a liveable city?
This week he met up with his old chum Richard Rogers, our own doyen of the public realm, along with Arup's head of planning, Jerome Frost, to discuss what makes a liveable city, at a Guardian Live event that I had the pleasure of chairing.
On £100 you couldn't make a pigsty liveable, entertain new friends, and live".
They need not be cost-effective in the conventional sense if they make a place more liveable or offer other vague benefits.America's streetcar revival is gobbling up funds that might otherwise go towards cheaper, nimbler forms of public transport, such as buses.
Both are influential and celebrated practitioners of urban design, but we want to hear from you: what contributes to or makes a city liveable?
What are the less obvious things that make a city fun and liveable for children and teenagers – not to visit, but to live in?
"We must realise the vision of making Gaza a liveable place and a cornerstone of peace and security for all in the region".
Turning them into liveable homes could make a massive difference, says David Ireland, chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency.
If we were serious, in other words, we would make a concerted effort to make all our cities liveable, and stop splitting hairs about which was really damaging our health, between doing no exercise and creating cities in which exercise was undoable.
It's a means, a solution, a way to make life liveable.
