Reclaim the streets: it’s only when you stroll about amongst pots, pear trees and picnic tables that you really feel the potential of car-free streets.

Dutch courage: some Dutch details which inspire and warm the heart.

A tale of two typologies: how compatible are height and place? (And does London need a Stadsbouwmeester?)

Low rise high pleasure: Amsterdam’s former lumber wharf is now home to a dizzying array of canal-based new homes and offices.

Mixing it: as London attempts to combine high density resi with workspace and industrial uses, I ask myself: WWDD? (What Would the Dutch do?) And can a ‘mega-campus’ ever be an intimate place?

#BadProcurement: Local Authorities deserve great procurement which delivers high quality homes

Have you heard about London's new airports? No? Let me explain.

Move closer: Could you live 5 metres from your opposite neighbour? Many do...

Urban Conversations: Peabody's great-gran shouts across the road to Barratt's strapping new-born - you can tell they're related...

Soul-searching: Toronto's bold growth programme combines high rise with red brick heritage but does place result?

New York's 20s apartment megaliths have a lot to teach us now: high density can be both beautiful and humane.

In response to the Prime Minister’s stated aim to tackle – and in some cases demolish – the perceived problem of a hundred postwar council estates, we asked social housing expert Claire Bennie, previously of the Peabody Trust, to examine the reality behind the rhetoric.

Where is England’s new housing and who is building it? Clue: it’s all about houses in the shires…

A trawl through new build housing stats reveals that you can build as many new homes as you like: but it all trickles through to market rent in the end.

We don’t ‘do’ sharing well in England: so how will we ever reduce the land given over to parking, or enjoy the benefits of communal canoes?

Car parking occupies a highly charged place in the English psyche, as well as a lot of land in new housing schemes. Where do we park 30 million cars elegantly?

This hugely ambitious neighbourhood renewal has seen mixed quality results, depending on the delivering party and the continuity of the architect.

Landscape is all too easily value engineered towards the end of a development project, with detrimental results to otherwise exemplary schemes.

One year on from a major season on the ‘Future of Housing’ in the UK, the Royal Academy of Arts look again at this ever more urgent question.