Andrew Bailie
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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Andrew Bailie
- Jan 5
- 6 min
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...
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Andrew Bailie
- Jan 23, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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Andrew Bailie
- Jan 16, 2022
- 8 min
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...
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Andrew Bailie
- May 19, 2020
- 12 min
Invisible Cities: rereading in lockdown
Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" imagines a conversation between an emperor and an explorer. Their dialogue creates a compelling...
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Andrew Bailie
- Apr 3, 2020
- 9 min
Market Value
“History is like a slingshot – the deeper you pull back the further you shoot.” Aloísio Magalhães Consumption and companionship Markets...
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Andrew Bailie
- Nov 24, 2019
- 8 min
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,...
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Andrew Bailie
- Nov 2, 2019
- 3 min
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
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Andrew Bailie
- Nov 2, 2019
- 4 min
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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