Two steps forward, one step back
Chris Williamson, president of the RIBA has made a stand, possibly more profound and challenging than any previous incumbent.
BEST BOOKS OF 2025
Some of the Future Cities Project Readers’ Group and Paper Review regulars have chosen their favourite books of 2025. If you’re looking for stocking fillers, or just great books, read on.
Forest City 1
An interview on Ali Miraj’s LBC Radio programme, discussing Forest City 1, but also the generic city and the broader implications of Big Ideas.
Dumbed Down Design Education
While the ARB talks about “competency”, there has never been so much bewildered incompetence prevalent in the profession as there is today.
Where’s the infrastructure & investment?
Modern infrastructure is essential for a healthy economy. But with our current economic stagnation and near-zero growth, we’re stuck in a rut.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot build
Lewis Goodhall;s comments reflect the cosmopolitan elite’s general contempt for the concerns of many ordinary people.
Trump’s Chinese Playbook
Trump is leaving behind Western ways of doing things and beginning to read from the Chinese authoritarian playbook
… there are positive things…
Stability is good, but the shakeup of a decrepit system has been a long time coming. EDI is part of the problem.
Review: “Out of Competition”
A failing Hollywood film producer is manhandled in a street in the south of France and bundled into a rowdy, radical, pro-democracy meeting.
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