Principles of True Urbanism

Take a look at the website of "International Making Cities Livable" where you can find a simple and well-articulated vision for building, sustaining and enriching towns and cities. These priciples seem to be having some effect on Colchester's town centre, but for the majority of the town – the expanding part – they have been conveniently ignored.

However, it can't be all bad out there in the 'burbs: a study on suburban living released by the University of California at Irvine found that "for every 10 per cent decrease in population density, the chances of people talking to their neighbours weekly increases by 10 per cent". Read more here...