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John Nash at Tate Britain, October 2016-March2017 (p7)
Wars How lucky we are, I mean those who lived through the ‘trente glorieuses’, those who were spared world wars, at least during their years of consciousness. It tends to be also those who endorse the European Union despite all its faults, simply because Europeans have refrained from using arms against each other – contrary […]
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Revolution at the V&A (p6)
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world” This quote from the nineteen-sixties by Margaret Mead was greeting visitors to the Revolution exhibition, currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It is an encouraging thought in our times of globalisation, dominated by corporations with turnovers well above […]
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OC61 Cities Save the World
‘Cities Save the World’ was the title of the 50th anniversary congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) which took place in 2015 at a plenary in Rotterdam preceded by parallel workshops in 12 cities in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Delft and the Hague, Deventer, Dortmund, Eindhoven, […]