Category : London
London is changing. But then, it always is. The theme of my new book, ‘Reinventing London’ is that change is the lifeblood of a great city. Over the past thirty years it has replaced around 1 million jobs in manufacturing, largely around the edge of the city and along the radial routes, with more than…
A conference last week addressed the question of what to do about aviation. This is a very vexed question – we all want to travel and mostly want to fly. But none of us want aircraft overhead or runways gobbling up land. And our most successful airport, Heathrow, has only two runways where most large…
It is fascinating how our attitudes have changed. Ten years ago, I was arguing the case for Crossrail – the London rail link which will increase capacity into central London by around 80,000 people in the peak – to an audience which was entirely cynical about our ability to deliver this. An attempt to get…