Archive for February, 2011
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Open Cities 31 Maintaining Cities Open
A lot has been written about cities and their ties with people. Lineu Castello’s ‘Rethinking the Meaning of Place’ (Ashgate 2010) is one of the most comprehensive literature reviews of how human beings interact with their built environment I have come across (more of that in a later post). He provides the big picture and […]
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Open Cities Afterthought about Baby Oil and Ice
A note in Private Eye no 1281 (4-17 February 2011, p13) leads to this follow up of the Open Cities post 28. Hackney Council in London’s East End voted a nil policy on sex establishments which will get rid of the four existing strip clubs, although 76% of people in the area opposed such a […]