China’s urban dilemmas
For 40 years, China has been urbanizing in order to accommodate its growing population often with scant regard to the finer points of urban design.
Housing: Where Will We All Live?
While the construction industry tries to deal with its economic problems by redundancies and bankruptcies; the big new stupid idea in architecture schools is “degrowth.”
German Right and Left United in Attacking Israel
It’s not the far-right, but the anti-Israel left that has been agitating against Israel in universities and other institutions.
What’s in a name?
What designers do, and how they describe themselves, is important. By the 1990s, the graphic designer and the craft of design was being written out of the script.
Corroding the Curriculum
Parents and teachers would be horrified to find political parties in schools pushing partisan agendas, but seem happy for environmental lobbyists to hand out leaflets, write lesson plans, and prepare coursework.
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.
Hausat? Germany’s housing shortage
More skilled workers emigrate from Germany than immigrate. Of all OECD countries, Germany has the third highest emigration rate.”
China’s Middle Eastern Meddling
China’s isolation from the real world for much of the 20th century’s post-war period has meant that, in reality, it is rather unworldly.
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
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