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Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Town Hall That They Had To Move
The mining town of Kiruna is not a normal place. For a start its 145km north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden and for another the mine that it was built to serve is thriving. It costs about four times … Continue reading
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The High-heeled Psychogeographer
This is the transcript of a discussion with Laura Oldfield Ford, artist, publisher of Savage Messiah and citizen of Dalston, London. It took place during an 11 mile walk around the Olympics Site undertaken in early 2009, around the time of … Continue reading
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