The UK government’s taskforce is preparing to publish its next-generation proposals. Could the markets, maisons and master planning of Europe’s still thriving 13th-century towns provide the answers?
Can the design vision that created the postwar new town help unlock our current housing crisis?
Governments should build on, not rip up, what went before — the new skills strategy does just that
The heritage archetype is inspiring imaginative iterations for constrained or overlooked sites, and creating intimate communities
A nation once defined by experimentation risks turning its buildings — and culture — into a nostalgic echo
Historic landscape gardens need defenders to ward off development
Inside a Worcestershire retreat where the classical, the kitsch and the out-and-out cutting edge collide
