Kosmograd: Searching for the edge of London

October 13, 2010

Searching for the edge of London

You can find me waxing lyrical about the secret urbanism of the Green Belt, over at Urban Tick, part of their series on Ecological Urbanism.

Hopefully at some point I'll be able to write a more expansive piece on a psychogeographical cycle ride through Hertfordshire.

Oct 13, 2010 12:21:06 PM | Cities, Cycling, Disurbanism, London, Urban theory, Utopias

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Good piece it is, too.

Posted by: James Heartfield | October 13, 2010 at 12:24 PM

I think Patrick Abercrombie cuts an interesting figure in all of this, being both the most powerful town planner England ever had and yet also the founder of the Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England and the creator of the Green Belt. I can only surmise that he saw the two realms as polar opposites and that one must plan cities and towns to preserve the country, and vice versa, and never the twain shall meet.

Posted by: Kosmograd | October 15, 2010 at 04:21 PM

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