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This month's series: Helping shape the planning process
This month we hear from Transition initiatives about how they are trying to contribute to debates around the future development of their community. Today we hear from Transition Market Harborough:
"Market Harborough is incredibly "inbuilt", there are no scraps of land left as these have all been built upon... apart from one"...
October's theme is 'Rethinking Real Estate'
Our approach to an economic crisis caused by an unsustainable housing bubble is increasingly to create another housing bubble. What could possibly go wrong? This month we explore what a different approach could look like.
Read our month's editorial, "Why I'm Proud to be a SWIMBY" here.
The Transition Interview: Tony Greenham
What is a housing bubble, and are we in danger of creating another one now? We ask Tony Greenham of nef, who tells us "It’s almost guaranteed that you’ll end up with unaffordable houses really, which isn’t exactly solving the problem we think we’ve got".
Latest Transition Culture blog post
REconomy Project
The REconomy Project is here to help you transform your local economy. Over the last 2 years we’ve learned a lot about what REconomy is, who’s doing it and what it looks like in the UK and beyond. Find out more over on the new look, much simpler website - we suggest you start here.
2014 Transition Hubs gathering
The 2014 Hubs meeting took place in Denmark. The last two days were held in a car park. Here's the story...
What is Transition?
Here is a recent piece from German television which offers a good introduction to Transition.
Featured project
In July, Crystal Palace Transition Town unveiled their latest community garden, named in honour of local punk legend Captain Sensible. Here's the story of the launch of 'The Sensible Garden':
Read more about the garden here.
