It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can. (G.K. Chesterton)
Day: March 10, 2023
Tagging the Palace Walls
I was in Desmond’s Hip City. Delroy Wilson’s musty Dancing Mood posters strewn underfoot. Party for the End of the World slapped on the hoarding, made from cut and paste hysteria. Hunger strikes and tribal clashes, clashes luridly with magical runes graffiti. Ruins a dancing mood for a spellbound stargazer like me. Harald Bluetooth,[…]
15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?
There’s much ado of late on ‘15 minute cities‘, (FMCs – like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of our metropolises, so that the basic amenities – groceries, shops, cafes, libraries, schools, parks, even, might we add, churches – will all be within walking, or biking, distance. Gone will be[…]