“A massive betrayal”
Back in 2013, in an earlier incarnation of this blog, I wrote this post. Read that post and then read … Read More ““A massive betrayal””
Back in 2013, in an earlier incarnation of this blog, I wrote this post. Read that post and then read … Read More ““A massive betrayal””
Several years ago I wrote a post setting out some ideas on how to ease the cost of affordable housing. … Read More “Housing stories”
Rather than trying to produce long screeds that no-one reads, this is the first of a series of posts that … Read More “Ideas for Devizes #1 – Main Street USA”
There is a tendency to blame ‘the planners’ for everything that goes wrong, from dog mess to lack of public … Read More “We still need planning”
In a previous post I looked briefly at the idea of ‘Affordable Housing’ and some of the problems I saw … Read More “Shanty towns, planned towns and ‘core housing’.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzDDMzq7d0&w=560&h=315] This video from YouTube shows a shared space scheme implemented in Poynton, Cheshire. Visually and environmentally the transformation is … Read More “Devizes Green and traffic”
Large Lump development is based on the idea of replacement. Piecemeal growth is based on the idea of repair. Since … Read More “Large scale or small scale?”
Tradition is what you make it. That is, most traditions were someone’s bright idea which was successful enough to persist … Read More “Quote of the day–tradition”
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present … Read More “Let us build forever”
Evidence collected from the UK suggests that top of the list of what is important to people is ‘neighbourhood’ (not … Read More “What makes a good place–and how do we get one?”