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McKinsey
McKinsey-led think-tank advised China on policy that fed US tensions
...In Washington, Republican lawmakers have assailed McKinsey for its work in China, where the firm has said it has local governments and state-owned enterprises among its clients....
February 23, 2024
UK housebuilding
Housing developments axed as Tory planning reforms take effect
...amount of land supply some councils need to allocate for housing....
March 21, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
UK housebuilding
UK sends Canary Wharf landlord first cladding bill under new powers
...The housing department has applied to a property tribunal for an order to require companies in property tycoon John Christodoulou’s Yianis Group to contribute to fixing safety issues at the Canary Riverside...
March 28, 2024
US-China relations
US revokes licences for supply of chips to China’s Huawei
...Michael McCaul, Republican chair of the House foreign affairs committee, has repeatedly urged the commerce department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to take a tougher stance on Huawei....
May 8, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
US says Israel’s use of American arms may have violated humanitarian law
...Israel may have used US-made weapons in ways that violate humanitarian rights, according to a state department study that stopped short of formally accusing the country of breaking international law....
May 10, 2024
Visual Arts
Urban Aboriginal art takes centre stage at the 2024 Sydney Biennale
...Yet however one describes them, urban Black artists have shaken up cultural institutions and achieved wider representation for their work....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
The Impact Of Gen AI On The Legal Sector
How are law firms leveraging technology to transform services and operations?
Tuesday, 11 JuneDigital Conference
Special ReportThriving Cities
Development charities shift focus to urban areas
...The Covid-19 pandemic brought widespread suffering in many parts of the world, but it also helped create new economic opportunities for impoverished young people in Kenya’s sprawling informal urban settlements...
November 29, 2023
Gardens
Beauty and the balcony: horticulture is not just for house dwellers
...But as the Urban Show demonstrates, horticultural experts are increasingly keen to show that city dwellers around the world don’t have to miss out on gardening. They just need the right approach....
April 17, 2024
Letter
Letter: Hong Kong housing’s lack of affordability is overdone
...Charles Ka Yui Leung Associate Professor Department of Economics and FinanceCity University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong...
May 10, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Are trees bad for cities?
...The fetish for the countryside developed in Britain in the 19th century was in part a response to the realisation that much of the urban population was unfit for military service....
January 23, 2024
Andy Haldane
How to stop local government in England becoming a Greek tragedy
...It has been deployed successfully at a local level in a wide range of other countries, including Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States....
April 6, 2024
UK housebuilding
Gove lays out plans to boost housebuilding on used land in England
...But Marc Vlessing, chief executive of Pocket Living, a developer that has pushed for new policies to make it easier to build on small urban sites, said: “It’s really hard to see how this is going to make...
February 13, 2024
Travelista
Five buzzing urban addresses for your next weekend escape
...Único’s off to a great start with its choice of building: the 1928 Edificio Mihanovich was for nearly a decade the tallest in Latin America, and its elegant proportions reflect the brand’s ambitions to own...
February 18, 2024
Kenya
Kenya president set for landmark US state visit as Russia builds Africa influence
...Last week, the House foreign affairs committee put in a formal request to Speaker Mike Johnson to invite Ruto to address a joint session of Congress....
May 7, 2024
UK housebuilding
State housing schemes in England have ‘materially underdelivered’ since 2020
...State housebuilding schemes in England have “very materially underdelivered” since 2020, according to a review of the government’s housing and regeneration agency, which criticised Whitehall for worsening...
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Slovakia
Slovakia’s Robert Fico targets civil rights groups
...Slovakia’s nationalist prime minister, Robert Fico, is moving ahead with a law targeting non-governmental organisations that critics say is inspired by Hungary’s crackdown on civil rights groups....
April 30, 2024
Letter
Letter: Societies benefit if urban poor are more resilient
...Urban populations are expected to grow by 1.5bn by 2040, which means that not only will cities have an even greater footprint, many more people will depend on climateconscious urban planning for...
January 31, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The world’s cities are not ready for climate change
...The report on London stated the capital was “underprepared” for the effects of climate change....
January 18, 2024
Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses
...Homes in Texan cities are cheap and their populations soaring because the state has made urban development easy....
February 23, 2024
House & Home
Can ‘gentle density’ help us solve the housing crisis?
...The Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, Garred judges, have got it about right when it comes to urban density — as Australians desperate for affordable, sustainable homes are coming to realise....
November 3, 2023
Six films to watch this week
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes film review — simian civil war with hints of contemporary politics
...Centred on Vietnam and Civil Rights, they were an emblem of America at boiling point, a presidential election looming....
May 8, 2024
Letter
Letter: Biden silent on the many journalists killed in Gaza
...We in America like to say that “democracy dies in darkness” — the official slogan of The Washington Post. It is also true that human rights die in darkness. Andreas V Georgiou Darnestown, MD, US...
May 8, 2024
Joy Lo Dico
A tale of two cities: one real, one virtual
...And is it the right question? For example, if you are fixated on reducing traffic, should you look at more than just modes of transport?...
January 19, 2024
Letter
Letter: Ministerial assurances on biosecurity border checks
...Lord Douglas-MillerMinister for Biosecurity, Animal Health and Welfare, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London SW1, UK...
April 23, 2024
UK economy
Alright sickos, here’s even more charts about the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee
...Luckily for narrative simplicity, doing so doesn’t affect the rankings much: So, basically, SE Cynic was right: internal doves are hard to find. Hooray for the readers!...
May 10, 2024

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