The paper uses recent data of financial performance drawn from a sample of manufacturing and service firms from the London Borough of Islington to assess the current position of such enterprises in a typical inner city area. Performance is found to be as good as, and in some cases better than,...

More recent UK climatic data for use in the design of naturally ventilated buildings show that passive stack ventilation alone is unlikely to maintain summertime comfort in a new University College London building within the London city heat island. A stack ventilation strategy developed by the...