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Guardian labels Eco New Towns a red herring
Last Friday’s Guardian (09/10/09) featured an article by Simon Jenkins on the subject of Eco Towns. This rather intriguing article highlights a view that is gaining traction in both architecture and...
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Suburbia : The future of the city?
Estates: an Intimate History On Thinking Allowed (BBC Radio 4, 22/10/2009) the following programme was aired discussing the concept of suburbia. This is the blurb from the website – “How do housing...
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A last hurrah!
1872 etching "Over London by Rail" by Gustav Dore It seems the BBC have produced a rather fitting send off the for the Urban Spatial Cultures unit for this year. The BBC Radio4 programme ‘In Our Time’...
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What future?
I have just discovered the Ove Arup sponsored mini-site on the Guardian webpage The Future of Urban LIving. One question/article is rather touching in its naïvety ‘how do we create a holistic urban...
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Going up?
Another, this time interesting, BBC article about the future of tower blocks “Viewpoint: could people learn to love tower blocks” Now I live in tower block, admittedly a refurbished, privately owned...
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Wythenshawe isolated?
A image of Hulme taken from the top of the Chatham Building (c.1965) showing the cleared site for the construction of the new Hulme. You'll note the Princess Parkway has not been built yet and some of...
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On the move : aviewfromtheinterior.net
This blog has been moved to aviewfromtheinterior. This is because I didn’t feel the title really reflected the blog anymore, it is more about what attracts me in general in design, architecture, social...
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