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.
… 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.
Pantomime? Oh no it isn’t.
The unenlightened in the audience – those who didn’t get it – were revealed as the real stage villains of the piece.
Review: “The Power if Nuclear” by Marco Visscher
In this important book, Marco Visscher shows how knee-jerk reactions from national governments have blighted the progress of the nuclear industry since its foundation.
Unfair COP
The Conference of the Parties (COP) has been criss-crossing the world on a never-ending jamboree of virtue-signalling for the last three decades
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