As states have responded to the Coronavirus, with extended powers of lockdown, and aid to business combined with increased welfare provisions, a new term has entered our vocabulary.   Steve Latham   “Coronanomics” describes this process of growing government control. In a rejection of neo-liberalism, even the Right has adopted […]

To understand, and act effectively within, the city, we need multi-level empirical research: macro-analyses of statistics, figures, and algorithms; and micro-studies, from interviews and focus groups.      Steve Latham   These require integrating in a cybernetic approach to the city’s many systems: business, the arts, education, and politics. And […]

Two years ago, our kids bought my wife the board-game, “Pandemic”, for Christmas. We played it several times. But now, it appears all-too-real.   Steve Latham   It seems only recently that scientists were debating whether to label our era as the ‘Anthropocene’, in recognition of the devastation our species […]