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Tired of London?

“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”   Steve Latham   James Boswell, in his famous biography of […]

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Feeling the city

The technocratic, managerial ethos of Twentieth Century urban planning left out human value and scale.   Steve Latham   But opposed, for instance, to Robert Moses’ schemes for New York, arose Jane Jacobs, who reasserted the role of the local, small-scale, and human, for city-living. But it’s debateable whether she […]