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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #266 Building Communities Together
Description: Cities around the world face a housing crisis. In countries like the UK, local authorities struggle to finance projects and to find space for development. In faster growing and younger cities, it can be a challenge to ensure services and infrastructure are developed at the same pace as new housing.
Urban development requires a clear spatial plan that considers all forms of capital that a city generates: natural and social, human and cultural, as well as financial. By building this multi-dimensional picture of a city, local authorities can ensure that developments meet their Net Zero goals.
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