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arts-and-urbanism-cat-2-with-text-as-notes This is an early presentation of my British Academy funded research into Contemporary Romanian Art as Critique and Commentary on the post communist urban environment. A much longer collection of notes and downloads was assembled and I am still … Continue reading →

the-ring-project This was written as a ‘thesis project’ for my MA in Creative and Transactional Writing which I undertook on the basis that all planners do is talk and tell stories about places that aren’t yet. This piece follows Wagner’s … Continue reading →

the-dunston-manuscript-text This is the full text, with some marginal sketches and copies of illustrations of this epic performance poem, which Brian Goodey commented in his review of the 2001 reading “writing for an urban design is limiting enough, to wander … Continue reading →

These four papers have been unavailable for a while and might be of interest 1983 : Readers, Travellers etc. Written from several seminar presentations from years as a graduate student in Urban Design at Newcastle and as an annoyance to … Continue reading →

Slightly out of tune MSWord4 This is a summary of my dissertation ‘Talking about Special Places’ (OU PhD 1994) which I wanted to make available!

The Singer and the Song‘The singer and the song’ is a later version of ‘slightly out of tune’ – with illustrations now

When in the distant future, in the archives of a far of galactic empire an attempt is made to evaluate the worth of the fixation ‘Earth’ had with digital technology; and trillions of bytes are scanned, networks of software and … Continue reading →

A breath of fresh air on the Norfolk Coast These are a couple of short essays from Urban Design Quarterly which I had forgotten about – they both start in Norfolk – one is about a project I ran there … Continue reading →

This piece began as an essay for my MA in Creative and Transactional Writing and is pasted here in a Powerpoint version presented (but never published) at AESOP (European Planning Schools Association) Conference in 2009, to make a point that … Continue reading →

Slightly out of tune MSWord4 This short summary of my PhD has been left unpublished and seemed a good start to revitalize the site!