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built environment matters

volume 05 issue 01

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knots landing
RPS Planning, Transport & Environmental, looks at the all-pervasive threat of Japanese Knotweed in the UK. Knotweed's ability to grow almost anywhere and its quite impressive regenerative skills when hoed into the ground make its pattern of growth more similar to the spread of a disease rather than the cultivation of a decorative shrub.

are our cities shrinking?
Shrinking Cities is a major international research and exhibition project directed by the German architect/writer Philipp Oswalt and initiated and funded by the Cultural Foundation of the German Government in response to the drastic conditions in East Germany with an excess of 1.2M vacant apartments.

start talking rubbish
Across the UK there are now several Materials (Waste) Exchanges set up to help businesses turn what they may consider 'waste' into a reusable commodity. Fiona Maddocks, Materials Exchange Co-ordinator, Peterborough Environment City Trust, explains why businesses need to start talking rubbish

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