All Building articles in Building Homes March-April 2002
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News
City slicker
Increasingly, housebuilding is about making the most of complex brownfield projects. Josephine Smit reports on two schemes in London and Manchester that are setting the standard
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Features
Top hat and tails
Continuing our series of revisits, Bernard Hunt, managing director of architect HTA, met resident Stella Isaacs to review the Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust, the pioneer of tenant-centred rebuilding that has transformed not just the estate, but a whole way of life.
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Features
Front line
Is Richard Rogers' urban renewal vision producing results? Peter Harris thinks we have taken some steps forward, but Graeme Dodds says delivery is falling far short of what is needed
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Features
Green and crescent land
A small scheme to build 41 houses and 12 apartments on a football pitch site has heralded the start of a major estate regeneration project in Neasden, north-west London. Over the next nine years, 730 homes on the Resiform estate will be demolished and 530 new ones built.
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Features
City of fear
Developers are delivering the high-density urban living Lord Rogers demanded, just as crime figures soar and public services break down. Are developers now paying the price for government underfunding?
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Features
The north will rise again
The parallels between Manchester's upcoming Northern Quarter and Covent Garden in London are all too obvious. Both are based around former market buildings, and both rely on trendy one-off retailers and restaurants to create the sense of style and individuality that pulls in the crowds.