The Eco-town of Tomorrow and Its Planning.
Gordon Brown's "legacy" project of building 10 eco-towns in the South East of
England is an endeavour of specious rhetoric, of mobilised Nimbyism, and
unfettered hyperbole.
There seems to
Disurbanism
High friends in places
As further evidence of my loosely constructed theory that Hertfordshire is
England's own Inland Empire, a liminal interzone with a dark Lynchian
underbelly, we learn that drug gangs are moving out
Cities and floods
What will be built in the Thames Gateway? Will it be more like Broadacre City or
Carpet City?
The Thames Gateway is an ideological battlefield. It is the stage upon which all
architects,
From Hodge to Hooverville
Could Margaret Hodge be our very own Sub-prime Minister?
There are more insane ramblings from UK architecture minister Margaret Hodge in
this weeks Building Design (20,03.2008). Cleverly giving herself enough rope
The house in the middle of the M62
The story of these home-owner holdouts reminds me of the infamous house that
sits in the middle of the M62, the motorway that crosses the Penines between
Manchester and Leeds. At Stott Hall