The Tech That Actually Ran the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, postponed from 2020 and held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, were the most technologically ambitious Olympics ever staged. They were also the emptiest....
Infrastructure
Superfast broadband explained; Protos Energy Hub; Wylfa Newydd nuclear project collapse; Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C updates.
HSR boosts economies: growth, property, productivity
High-speed rail rewrites economic geography. When a four-hour trip becomes one hour, labor pools merge, supply chains reconfigure, and land values shift. Some corridors generate measurable new GDP. Others mostly...
Did Tottenham's Stadium Deliver on Its Economic Promises?
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opened on 3 April 2019 with a price tag of between £1 billion and £1.2 billion and a promise to regenerate one of London's poorest boroughs. The...
Heathrow Third Runway: Supreme Court Reinstates ANPS in 2020
On 16 December 2020, the UK Supreme Court overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that had declared the government's Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) for Heathrow expansion unlawful. The decision...
Russia's 2018 World Cup stadiums: cost and legacy
TL;DRRussia spent approximately $4.88 billion building and renovating 12 stadiums for the 2018 World Cup, with the federal government contributing 200 billion rubles and regional governments 50 billion rubles.Only one...
