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Shravan Joshi has a number of problems to address, all of them interlinked, none of them easy: How much office space will the City of London need in the future? What will happen to obsolete offices? And how do you build an urban centre fit for the future without killing the planet?
The City of London Planning and Transport Committee chairman last April took up the role of overseeing the development of the City, the UK’s largest single office market and the centre of its financial services industry.
His tenure began as the role of the office was in flux like never before. It also came as the world was waking up to the reality that the business model of knocking down buildings to develop something bigger and more valuable was emitting huge amounts of carbon.
The City of London Corp.’s planning division has come up with a number of key policies to attempt to balance economic and environmental sustainability on Joshi's watch, a priority in a district where 59% of jobs are office-based and risk is high as the way society works changes.If those policies work,…
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