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.
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.
Houthi nannies
Most environmental activists can’t really be equated with vicious terrorists, but even so, we should be prepared for the next phase of naïve eco-protest.
Twenty’s Plenty… For You
20mph. Just because it merited a sentence in an election manifesto, doesn’t mean that it’s not draconian.
Drakeford: exitus sinistram
It was his management of the various Covid-19 lockdowns that earned him the sobriquet, Kim Jong-Drakeford
Stay home, Don’t move, Save lives!
Chief Medical Officer, Sir Chris Whitty is senior advisor to the government’s “walking, wheeling and cycling” Active Travel strategy.
Thou Shalt Not Drive…
Seldom have our local representatives been more authoritarian; implementing road closures in the dead of night. And famously ignoring the results of public consultations.
Straight Line Crazy – A Review
Written by David Hare, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Ralph Fiennes, recounts the life and times of controversial urbanist Robert Moses
Olympic Meddles
Brave investigative journalism is essential for our understanding of what is happening in China. Unfortunately, factual accuracy can be drowned out by emotionally attached storylines and guesswork.
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