I’ve recently visited three US cities: Boulder CO, Portland OR and Seattle WA. Wandering round neighbourhoods in all three, I saw similar placards in front gardens, driveways and windows. These are liberal cities, so the most common placards to see were defiant
I’ve been ruminating on a relatively recent issue of Environment and Planning A (49: 3, 2017), which outlines and challenges the debate in geography and sociology about the ‘end of public space’. Don Mitchell’s article revisiting his previous work about People’s Park,
I’m involved with a great HLF-funded project by the Friends of Kennington Park to commemorate the Chartist monster meetings of 1848 on what used to be the common. Here are some pictures of a very cold February lunchtime walking round the park,
‘Common land’ The common misconception about commons is that commoners had common land ‘taken away from them’ by the general enclosure acts of the 19th century. I’ve included many ‘commons’ in that opening sentence, deliberately. Just to pick one example of the
The Webb Estate near Purley, Surrey, is an odd place, a exclusive-feeling village of ‘desirable’ houses, but with indications of something else behind the gates. The official website of the company that run the estate: http://www.webbestate.co.uk/history-1 Here are some pictures of
This is the most radical street in Manchester history, in my opinion. In April 2017, I took a field trip around Ancoats and Miles Platting, north Manchester, to investigate some of the sites of protest and popular politics that I researched for
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