It’s obvious, when we stop and think for a moment, that lots of problems we face personally and societally are complex, deep-rooted and multi-faceted. However, in a culture often dominated by speed and segregation: sound-bites, quick-wins, winners and losers, left and right, right and wrong, 24-hour news cycles and 5-year terms, we need to recognise
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Camden Town Unlimited (CTU) is the Business Improvement District (BID) for the Camden Town area, representing more than 300 member businesses. From office buildings to bookshops, restaurants to corner shops, we have been appointed by – and are accountable to – the business community, to ensure the area thrives and its potential is realised. CTU’s
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Improving a place takes on a very different perspective when the place is so new. Obviously, this area has always been on the map, but the part of London that has emerged after the 2012 Olympic Games is completely different to what it looked and felt like prior to London winning the Games in 2005.
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The London Borough of Hackney is, in many ways, the poster child for place improvement. There are few places in the UK that have undergone such wholesale change in such a short period of time. In about a decade and a half, Hackney has gone from being one of the least to the most desirable
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Such a simple question eh? Who needs even 500 words to answer that? We may broadly agree that it’s a recipe of sorts; a few key ingredients with some optional extras that are dependent on your personal taste and flavour; 8oz of an aesthetic and clean physical environment, a large knob of aspirational work opportunity,
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