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This week in Homophobia | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/this-week-in-homophobia
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. This week in Homophobia. Hi both. Of course, the big gay story this week is the Church of England’s dire warnings of impending de-facto disestablishment in their response to the government’s same-sex marriage consultation. It’s very tempting to dismiss this carefully worded response as bigoted bollocks. This is basically what Giles Fraser has very eloquently done. Than a same-sex ceremony. Jason Alexander, the comic in quest...
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This is a conspiracy | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/this-is-a-conspiracy
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. This is a conspiracy. But it is interesting. The library is claimed to be inspired in particular by Reagan’s presidential library; not surprising, perhaps, although I think it’s salient to understand a little more about the US presidential libraries before we decide whether this library is A Good Thing. Senator Ralph Owen Brewster. Is victorious over Senator Bail Organa. Usefully tells us that:. System is a nationwide networ...
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The ups and downs of seaside towns | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/the-ups-and-downs-of-seaside-towns
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. The ups and downs of seaside towns. Hi both. This short piece in the Economist. Is interesting if somewhat light. It makes various claims – that poverty in seaside towns is due largely to the decline of Victorian industry; that better rail connections to London would make them better places; that New Labour art-regen projects don’t do enough to turn around a failing economy. November 2, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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This year’s listening | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/this-years-listening
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. This year’s listening. I don’t frequently write here about music, although it’s very important to me. Prompted partially by a tweet from a pal (more on whom anon) I thought I’d give you a taste of my year’s listening. (As I don’t keep notes, this will be a partial and skewed list, bending towards what I can remember and what I’m generally listening to now). Or this for schmaltz:. The John Wilson Orchestra. Do send me any mus...
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Public/private space and the monopolies of fun and violence | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/publicprivate-space-and-the-monopolies-of-fun-and-violence
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. Public/private space and the monopolies of fun and violence. Hi both. The Graun are doing an interesting series on a serious topic – the privatisation of apparently public spaces. You can follow this here. Why is this a problem? Who pays for stuff? In his glowing (and marginally incoherent) report. On the Liverpool One. Why is this nonsense? Control of public space! Really the problem is this constant sniping of public spend...
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The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. April 17, 2012. Green Belts don’t protect the countryside. The first green belt was introduced back in 1938 to deal with the enormous pressure on London to expand into endless suburbia and what were known as ribbon developments on its metropolitan periphery ( Herbert Morrison. 1947 – The Year Planners Saved the Nation from Itself. Yeah, but there’s a housing crisis. Of course, it’s all much more complicated than this&#...
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Brownfield when? | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/brownfield-when
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. I don’t entirely agree with Daniel Knowles’s piece in the Economist. But I agree with the general thrust – that we shouldn’t let people like the CPRE bully us into fear of building on greenfied sites. I’m more of a new town person myself, aesthetically-speaking at least) but don’t have a coherent plan for getting these in place. No county council are going to decide to turn a village into a town with 60,000 r...And a serious...
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Modern Colour | Split Pediment
https://splitpediment.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/modern-colour
The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. February 10, 2013. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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robertmcnicol | Split Pediment
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The musings of a Brighton-based architecture dweeb and town planner in training. May 2, 2013. I don’t entirely agree with Daniel Knowles’s piece in the Economist. But I agree with the general thrust – that we shouldn’t let people like the CPRE bully us into fear of building on greenfied sites. I’m more of a new town person myself, aesthetically-speaking at least) but don’t have a coherent plan for getting these in place. No county council are going to decide to turn a village into a town ...And a serious...
