Laura Alvarez . Articles A place to live, work and play: why mixed-use developments are making a comeback The idea of a single building where you live, work and play may seem very much of the moment, driven by advances in communications technology. But mixed-use developments have been around for as long as mankind. Seven simple ways to create healthy, happy neighbourhoods Modern life is proving more complex, tiresome and heavy-going than we imagined. You don't have to build up or move out to tackle urban density These days, we almost expect that any large-scale, big impact inner-city development will be a skyscraper, but for smaller cities in the UK these proposals can still appear as fairly extreme, and their approval contentious. Here’s how we can learn to fall in love with shocking buildings Shocking new buildings often threaten to invade our cities. We feel they do not belong to our present; we know they are not related to our past. We moan and complain, and we suffer the sight of them. But we struggle to pin down exactly what makes them seem so “ugly” to us.
