The young people who are critical for any city’s prosperity are leaving London. Property prices, rents and sales are rising so astronomically, that only the super-rich are able to live in there. Steve Latham Gentrification often prices people out of inner city areas. Now central London is being […]
In Focus
In Focus
Diversity, proposing the democratic inclusion
Multiculturalism arose as a response to the challenges presented by immigration and as a way of proposing the democratic inclusion of immigrant ethnic minorities into society, maintaining their identity but at the same time adopting the values and institutions of the recipient country through a process of dialogue and mutual […]
Bosch
Of all the great paintings in Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, the one that possibly attracts the most visitors is Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of earthly delights”. Sean Sheehan It is a large triptych – over 213 cm (seven feet) high and 365 cm (12 feet) wide – but […]
The urban void: the mystical city
The cityscape contains empty spaces, voids, which are the as-yet undeveloped tracts within the urban setting. But the word ‘void’ possesses a dual meaning. It is also a spiritual word. The void is what mystics experience in the depth of their ecstasies. Steve Latham Similarly, ‘nada’ is used by […]
Labelling identities
By ‘stereotyping’, we refer to labelling a person or culture with particular characteristics, whether ‘good’ or ‘bad’. In education, it is said that the student becomes ‘what the label denotes’. Nigel Pocock The label therefore becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. A student labelled an ‘idiot’ becomes one. There are […]