Spain may have been facing severe economic problems but over the last year its high-speed rail has been a runaway success. Over the last 25 years Spain has made huge efforts to develop a modern standard-gauge railway network, with the … Read more › “Spain’s high-speed rail is a runaway success”
Sir Peter Hall, doyen of British town planners, famous since his first book ‘The World Cities’ was published in 1966, died last week. He has been Professor at Reading, Berkeley and most recently University College London, and was a former … Read more › “In Memoriam – Sir Peter Hall”
The government has responded to the independent HS2 Growth Taskforce’s report by challenging towns and cities to seize the full transformational potential of HS2, offering new funding to help local areas develop their HS2 strategies. The Taskforce published its report … Read more › “Getting set for HS2: Responding to the HS2 Growth Taskforce”
Paul Ormerod’s recent opinion piece in City A.M. suggests that an imaginative, potentially risky concept like HS3 might address the geographically uneven nature of the recovery and alleviate the inertia in the labour market experiences of different local areas. Read … Read more › “Could HS3 rescue our ailing regions?”
