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Up Market: Reviving England’s market towns (2/2)

To prevent the temporary downturn of market towns becoming a terminal decline, the next government needs to put their rejuvenation at the…

May 30

Up Market: Reviving England’s market towns (2/2)

May 30

John P. Houghton

Thamesmead: A Beautiful Thing (3/3)

Thamesmead was born to be different. It’s time to liberate the ‘town of tomorrow’ from the tyranny of typical expectations.

4d ago

Thamesmead: A Beautiful Thing (3/3)

4d ago

John P. Houghton

Feeling the benefit

How an innovative anti-poverty team is helping households out of debt and growing the local economy.

May 17

Feeling the benefit

May 17

John P. Houghton

The bear, the rose, and the butterfly

How to deliver the overdue transformation of our dead and dying high streets.

Apr 24

The bear, the rose, and the butterfly

Apr 24

John P. Houghton

How to Build a Borough: Waltham Forest (3/3)

The transformation of Waltham Forest from a sleepy suburb into London’s fastest-growing local economy offers a real-time lesson in…

Jan 3

Waltham Forest Town Hall

Jan 3

John P. Houghton

How to Build a Borough: Waltham Forest (2/3)

The transformation of Waltham Forest from a sleepy suburb into London’s fastest-growing local economy offers a real-time lesson in…

Nov 21, 2023

Public art on Forest Road in the borough

Nov 21, 2023

John P. Houghton

How to build a borough: Waltham Forest (1/3)

The transformation of Waltham Forest offers a real-time lesson in 21st-century place-making. It an example that other places should…

Nov 13, 2023

Waltham Forest Town Hall

Nov 13, 2023

John P. Houghton

Down Market – Reviving England’s market towns (1/2)

Too many market towns in England are failing to deliver decent life prospects for their middle- and lower-income residents.

Oct 10, 2023

Down Market – Reviving England’s market towns (1/2)

Oct 10, 2023

John P. Houghton

To fetch a pail of water

A lesson in sustainability from the 1600s.

Sep 29, 2023

To fetch a pail of water

Sep 29, 2023

John P. Houghton

Remembering the riots

What can we learn from the forgotten riots of summer 2001?

Sep 22, 2023

Riot police on the streets of Bradford

Sep 22, 2023

John P. Houghton

John P. Houghton

Hello. I’m a consultant and writer in the fields of urban regeneration and economic development. Contact me J_P_Houghton@hotmail.com or @metlines.

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