Tuesday, November 5, 2013

How Economics forgot History

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I used to devour critiques of the World Bank with great glee - but got fed up with the ease with which it seemed able to deflect the devas...
Monday, November 4, 2013

The beauty of independent book publishers

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Books have always been important to me – a library tends to grow wherever I put roots down for a year or so. Of course it is the content...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Health and .....the pursuit of happiness

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An article based on a new book invites us to identify what elements of city design might make a difference to resident happiness and then...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Perceiving the Balkans

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Patrick Leigh Fermor is a name to conjure with - as the wikipedia entry puts it - At the age of 18, Leigh Fermor decided to walk the le...

Weeping old houses

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It seems that some Romanian architects at least have a soul. Some months back I mentioned a lovely little production on the rehabilitatio...
Monday, October 28, 2013

A case-study in political stupidity and ideology

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Southern England is in the grip of strong winds and floods - and  an excellent article in The Guardian  reminds us of the ideological imbec...

Off the Bulgarian beaten track

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There are two parts of picturesque Bulgaria which are off- the beaten track – the south-east borderland (with Greece and Turkey) and the...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Aesthetics and economics

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Two sad departures – the lovely small Tabak café which occupied the back of the National Gallery building (the old Palace) and spread on...