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In 2014 Carbon Co-op and URBED were awarded a small research grant from the Chesshire Lehmann Fund to evaluate the impact of our Community Green Deal project, looking at potential implications for the fuel poverty agenda.

A piece written in the Sheffield Telegraph on Thursday 9th June by Andrew Wood of CPRE South Yorkshire references our recent work 'Sheffield Garden City? Options for long term urban growth.'

Join us on Wednesday 13th July for a one off 4x4 special to discuss the Housing Crisis with guest speaker Danny Dorling.

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Here is a photo of the Wythenshawe Biosphere in full growth.

Dr Nicholas Falk, Founder of URBED, argues that the solutions to our global urbanisation challenges might be found in the rise of ‘Metro Cities’ rather than the expansion of megacities. Dr Falk explores the opportunities for shared smart city learning between the UK and India in addressing these issues in this piece on the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) website. 

As part of the Guardian's series on the Housing Crisis, a letter from URBED founding director Nicholas Falk, was published on Thursday 5th May. You can see Nicholas' full letter via the link on the right. 

In it he suggests that the threat to our countryside from new housing is made worse by a failure to concentrate new development around key transport nodes. Echoing the sentiments of our Wolfson prize winning essay, Nicholas calls for a commission to allocate the land for new garden cities, rather than relying on ad hoc exceptions.