The URBED Trust

The URBED Trust is a not for profit company with charitable aims set up to promote research into the future of #cities, and to disseminate best practice.

[The URBED Trust @urbedtrust]

The final Postcard from the West Coast of North America 5/5 is now available, and looks at housing. Specifically the lack of affordable housing and the prevalence of rough sleeping, with homelessness increasing 50% in California since 2009: https://t.co/J5Skb8STOV

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Postcard from the West Coast of North America #4: this post looks to numerous cities and their transport infrastructures from Vancouver to Palo Alto as an opportunity to reflect on how to make cities work better through strategic transport investment 🚗🚎✈️https://t.co/y78Z6VPcDG

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The 3rd Postcard From the Future from Nicholas Falk's journey down the West Coast of North America explores the rhetoric of smart cities, Portland's MAX, Transit Oriented Development and Tax Increment Financing. Read over at: https://t.co/xrpWqqM7hu

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The 2nd in the series of Nicholas' journey down the West Coast of North America is now available. This postcard deals with how the USA came to lead the world in information technology, yet neglected innovations in personal mobility. https://t.co/kQTk2C48ea

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Read the 1st of 5 Postcard by @NicholasFalk which will be released once a week and cover his journey across the W. coast of N. America. The series explores whether prosperity in the worlds most innovative cities has actually translated into urban progress https://t.co/f8OST0W9og

[URBED+ @URBEDplus]

What a fantastic turnout for our launch event @4x4manchester last night. Such energising debate on #housing and growth. We’ve been overwhelmed with the feedback and interest. Thank you to all who attended, our speakers and sponsors for making it such a success.

[Dr Lucy Montague @LucyUrbanDesign]

Thrilled to finally launch @URBEDplus last night, the research partnership I have been developing with @URBEDmcr for the last few years. Follow us on twitter, find out more at https://t.co/Vi8KlSEbk2 and if you’d like to collaborate or just get in touch email [email protected]

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Read @NicholasFalk's latest piece on tackling the 'unearned increment': Sharing the uplift in land-value.

Published by the @theTCPA and available over on our website: https://t.co/hsk0TBzDR7

[Elizabeth Hopkirk @swix]

I have on my desk this morning beautiful books by no fewer than three @BDonline columnists. That's quite a hattrick. Proud to have you writing for us, @gilliandarley and David Rudlin of @urbedtrust plus the late and very lamented @HankDittmar #gravitas #insight #dreamteam

[The URBED Trust @urbedtrust]

Dr Nicholas Falk returns to Sarajevo almost 50 years after his last visit to speak at a conference on land value capture @COSTprogramme

Read his half-century reflections on the city and his thoughts on the conference over at Postcardsfromthefuture
https://t.co/lYWk4Myj3K

[The URBED Trust @urbedtrust]

We have just published our report of the third Indian Urban Futures symposium which took place in Southern India in March this year

Read about the two conferences in Chennai and Tirunelveli, and the inauguration of the 1st SCAD/URBED Eco-House! 🎉

https://t.co/bGP2EqY5vM

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"Dublin's unique position with one foot in Continental EU and the other in the UK, could make it the source of innovation in ‘place-making‘ or ‘smarter urbanisation’ that the whole world badly needs."

Our directors latest blog is up: this time on Dublin☘
https://t.co/VNLarTNdXf

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'Chennai, the city where drought is visible from space' https://t.co/aenP7a9Zwo

[The URBED Trust @urbedtrust]

Our director @NicholasFalk calls on government to look beyond our 'false gods' of GDP, and to change how investment decisions are made in this mornings @guardian letters @guardiancities https://t.co/Ntuzq7yqZf

[The URBED Trust @urbedtrust]

Our director @NicholasFalk has recently been cited in a @FinancialTimes article alongside @JohnHealey_MP on alternative land valuing mechanisms for the UK https://t.co/Qf7Hu7xFyd For those without a FT subscription do not fear: https://t.co/mN86O7V5mz

[Sebastian Kraemer @sebkraemer]

“My new report Land for Housing shows how Dutch and German cities have created fairer places, which offer models for rebalancing our towns and cities, and creating a more united country” @urbedtrust https://t.co/WY8UYDCdl1

[Jonathan Manns @Jonathan_Manns]

Hard copy just in - excited to feature in @po_qu with @urbedtrust’s Nick Falk on #valuecapture from planning. Development is positive but we must make clear the public benenfit and ensure it’s maximised.

[The URBED Trust @urbedtrust]

Interesting discussions this afternoon on the digitisation of planning processes with founder of @UrbanIntelUK @DanMohamed - is it time to update the planning process?

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Our trustee @Davidurbedcoop1 has an article published in the @guardian this morning on where British planning is going wrong - could forests provide more lessons than we thought...? https://t.co/6h0lwIxxhR

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Last summer we carried out a case study report on international examples of affordable housing for @Shelter's 16 commissioners for the 'Big Conversation' on the future of social housing in England in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy https://t.co/7Q7QYgbpZF