The forest idea is not based on centre-periphery economies and spatial hierarchies, but on equitable networks of livelihood and exchange. It embodies many historic associations with freedom and social justice.
If countries are geographies understood through the culture of those who inhabit them, then what is England?
An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and marked survivors for a lifetime. A meticulous account of the tragedy written a few years later is still the best source to understand what happened, says Ken Worpole, a native of one
The ‘new ruins’ – poorly designed and shoddy shopping malls and mass-produced housing – are ubiquitous throughout our cities. Ken Worpole finds that Owen Hatherley is a witty and erudite gazetteer of terrible mistakes, but wonders if the acerbic author is as fair as he could be
For the past 20 years or more people have increasingly been exploring the British landscape on foot and by bike. Ken Worpole is one of them and here he reflects on the rewards for modern society in a renewed acquaintance with the natural world
A Colin Ward Memorial Gathering is being held this Saturday to honour the life and work of the great anarchist thinker.
Landscape is both a place and a story, and stories often start or finish underground. In this coda to openDemocracy’s discussion of landscape, I want to offer some descriptions
It is said that only exceptional politicians are able to make their own weather. The same is true of writers. Roger Deakin, the writer and environmentalist who sadly died on
Towards the end of Raymond Williams' novel, Border Country, the main character, Matthew Price, climbs a hill near his home village in Wales where the father he is visiting
Ian Hamilton Finlay, who died at the age of 80 on 27 March 2006, was one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. His output was marked
A conference is being held in the Clerkenwell area of London on 16 March 2006 five minutes' walk from openDemocracy's office, as it happens to discuss the
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"Aldo van Eyck: The Playgrounds and the City"
edited by Ingeborg de Roode & Liane Lefaivre
NAi Publishers | January 2002 | ISBN 9056622498
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