Taking a break out of the seemingly endless election cycle, I attended a NLA event last week on 'Grappling with Growth'. The event was an intriguing dialogue between London's Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills, Jules Pipe, and his counterpart in New York, Alicia Glen. It was an interesting eye opener and, to those of us who have become guilty of being too London (or U.K.) centric, it exposed the fact that our growth problems are not unique.