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New London Agenda Essays

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NLA is London's built environment community; an independent, purpose-led organisation for everyone with an interest in London’s built environment.  NLA’s programme and its family of brands and projects engages the broadest possible audience across government, business and the public to educate, challenge, connect and create positive change.

29 July 2025
Essay

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: The Next Chapter

What comes next for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: the assets, partnerships and projects that can propel a new chapter of inclusive growth in and around the Park.

28 April 2025
Essay

Demonstrator Districts for Global Cities

Insights from an NLA roundtable on ‘demonstrator districts’—places that pilot inclusive, innovation-led urbanism and show how global cities can deliver cleaner growth and better outcomes.

4 March 2025
Essay

Multiplying the Metropolis

Charting the changing character of metropolitan growth, Clark describes how new locations and clusters can emerge by leveraging connectivity, density, and mix to ‘multiply’ the metropolis.

11 July 2024
Essay

Can housing in UK cities become genuinely affordable?

Clark examines routes to genuine urban housing affordability—finance, tenure, land, and policy reform—and the coalitions required to scale solutions across UK cities.

22 May 2024
Essay

Re-Imagining Cities in London and Europe.

Reflections on how London and European cities are re-imagining purpose and competitiveness—through culture, technology and place—amid shifting globalisation and local realities.

28 March 2024
Essay

Why we need an Agenda: London’s next 30 year cycle

Why London needs a clear agenda for its next thirty years: aligning investment, planning and governance to deliver affordability, sustainability and productivity at metropolitan scale.

26 March 2024
Essay

London's next 30-year development cycle

Clark frames London’s next long cycle of development, identifying the drivers, risks and opportunities that will shape the metropolis and how leadership can set the pace for the coming decades.

1 February 2024
Essay

The New London Agenda

An overview of the Agenda’s principles and why London needs a renewed mission to guide investment, design and policy toward a prosperous, inclusive, and net-zero future.

12 December 2023
Essay

London Living: a New Social Contract

Clark sets out the ingredients of a fairer ‘social contract’ for Londoners—combining growth with affordability, inclusion and decarbonisation—and the policy tools and partnerships needed to get there.

9 October 2023
Essay

Re-sequencing the city

A ‘helicopter view’ of Central London’s post-pandemic place leadership: why BIDs and local alliances must coordinate a new sequence of uses across days and seasons, avoiding coordination failures and unlocking district value.

6 July 2023
Essay

Making Place for Planet

This essay considers how place-making can align with the climate imperative, setting out how London can reduce emissions, build resilience and embed nature-positive design while enabling growth and better everyday experiences.

24 May 2023
Essay

Re-Mixing the Metropolis: London’s Towns and Interchanges – The New Opportunity

Clark explores how London’s town centres and transport interchanges can be re-mixed to support post-pandemic patterns, creating more agile, polycentric places that concentrate footfall, activity and investment around key nodes.

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