There’s No Such Thing As Society… Only Local Solutions
David Clements | 10 December 2003 People “should be told to be braver” if the widespread and socially-damaging fear of crime and strangers is to be beaten, Miranda Sawyer, author of a book that investigated local neighbourhoods told a day-long conference Future Vision: Future Cities at the London School of Economics. “Cities are a bit rough”, she admitted, but people were capable of taking control of their...
Rebranding Parochialism
Austin Williams | 21 November 2003 There’s a point in most cowboy movies from the Fifties, when the out-of-town sheriff steps in to stop an angry mob from taking the law into their own hands. Even though these films are in black and white – in more than one sense – the townspeoples’ spontaneous anger is usually mollified by the elected sheriff’s insistence on due process. Admittedly, these events are...
Areas of grave concern
Austin Williams | 23 Nov 2002 Why are children in poor neighbourhoods more at risk of traffic accidents? In an article that originally appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Austin Williams investigates. Children in poor areas are at more risk of being knocked down by a car than those from more affluent areas. This is the startling conclusion to the latest Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) report, Streets Ahead: Safe and liveable...
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