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As architects and developers plan new developments, they are certainly thinking about roads, parking spaces and footprints, but are they also thinking about productive plantings, the role of rooftop gardens and biodiversity?  Almost certainly not.  Having visited some great urban agriculture initiatives in the last couple of years, this feels

It would be fair, I think, to say that Transition was slower to take off in France than in some other European countries, but it now feels well underway.  This evolution has been greatly aided by the recent publication, by Editions du Seuile, of the French edition of The Power

One might well be forgiven for assuming that our current strategy for getting out of an economic crisis caused by an unsustainable housing bubble is to create an unsustainable housing bubble.  But are we?  And what is a housing bubble anyway? We asked Tony Greenham, who runs the financial reform

Darren Woodiwiss of Transition Market Harborough reports on the group’s attempts to influence development in their town, which have focused on the one remaining undeveloped site in the town… “Market Harborough is a picturesque market town situated in South Leicestershire nestled up against the Northamptonshire border. It is a

I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK’s first urban mushroom farm.  City centres are full of unused office space, either due to lack of demand, or due to developers mothballing them for future development.  What use might be found for them?  And might