Monthly Archives: December 2014

Chipperfield is wrong about Berlin

Posted on December 19, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

It is tempting to see David Chipperfield’s eulogy to Berlin – in opposition to London and other cities – as sour grapes. The English architect is after all engaged in two particularly protracted protests from heritage groups regarding his plans for the … Continue reading →

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Parliament in the abstract

Posted on December 5, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

I quite liked Bernard Porter’s suggestion in the London Review of Books that MPs should be removed from the Palace of Westminster during its impending refurbishment. But not for the reason he gave. To suggest that it is only by relocating parliament that “they … Continue reading →

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Five of Ebenezer Howard’s ideas that may have accidentally been omitted from the new garden city proposals

Posted on December 2, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

  Here are a few extracts from Ebenezer Howard’s work Garden Cities of Tomorrow, which give an insight into some of the work’s more pioneering ideas, particularly those that may – for some reason – be overlooked in the planning of … Continue reading →

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