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Alex Ely describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor must allow London's green belt to become a space for opportunity, for a new type of self-help housing
Anna Minton describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor must halt ‘estate regeneration’ programmes which are leading largely to the demolition of desperately needed low-cost housing
Kate MacTiernan describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor should implement an immediate freeze on any further public land being sold to volume housebuilders
Crispin Kelly describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor should let anyone apply for planning on publicly owned land
Bob and Roberta Smith describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor must address the threat to artistic practice in our city by establishing a public database of unused buildings as spaces for artistic use
Carolyn Steel describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor must address the food deserts in our city by implementing a series of community food hubs
Mark Brearley describes in 5 minutes why the new Mayor must encourage a broad, overlapping culture of invention and production
Claire Bennie describes in 5 minutes why our planning system is an arcane, closed book, and that the new Mayor should implement meeting places to showcase plans
Oliver Wainwright explains in 10 minutes why viability assessments are wreaking havoc on London's social housing and why the new mayor must scrap them
The Architecture Foundation launches a ten-point provocation for London
6 June
As part of the AF's programme of events around the Mayoral election, we bring together some of the world's most innovative city architects
3 May
Fran Tonkiss chairs a discussion on the development of London between two of its most astute commentators