Different Moulds
I met my first Mormon friend on the California Zephyr, America’s longest passenger train. Glenn boarded in Salt Lake City, on his way to...
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Spur Room
Thinking about housing, food and cities
Blocked
When I was a student, I went to Barcelona. I was meant to be studying urban planning, so I wandered around the ‘superblocks’ system of...
Killer whales and lifesaver bridges.
TW: Suicide Northern Ireland can be a divided and divisive place. It is also where I am from. Nestled up to the the border, our second...
Opposites Attract: what Norilsk and Ushuaia reveal about urban development
Cities allow people to cluster and thrive within a small footprint. To continue delivering on the benefits of density, urban growth...
Invisible Cities: rereading in lockdown
Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" imagines a conversation between an emperor and an explorer. Their dialogue creates a compelling...
Market Value
“History is like a slingshot – the deeper you pull back the further you shoot.” Aloísio Magalhães Consumption and companionship Markets...
Let Them Eat Cake
"Food shapes cities and through them, it moulds us" Carolyn Steel In the summer of 1789, Paris was gripped by a series of protests,...
Challenging Paintings
Joan Miró is one of the most important artists in Spain’s history, with a distinctive symbolic style combining motifs of birds, women and co
Camera Obscura
Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) was a genre-bending practical activist, who shaped cities from Edinburgh to Tel Aviv. His work, which stemmed...
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