Housing
There is a powerful and somewhat neglected tradition of local authorities, often socialist, building good quality, low cost housing across Europe.
The photograph is of the Rabenhof estate in Vienna, with a lovely wall for sitting on and passing the time of day. It’s the sort of detail that Jane Jacobs, Josef Frank and Christopher Alexander understood so well.
I’m involved in a research project on housing, including London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam and the ideas feed into Radical Walks and talks.
Here are some related articles.
Building Red Vienna
New Frankfurt and the Housing Question
Red Metropolis: Review
Municipal Politics and the Revolutionay Left
The Scale of Britains’s Housing Crisis
A PDF of a presentation ‘Housing is more than Houses’
The Image of the City
The development of cities in the past 200 years or so has fundamentally been about the expansion of capital and the interests of capital accumulation. Or, how the capitalists make their money (through the exploitation of workers).
I’ve been exploring the expansion of capital on city development through a series of walks, writing and short film making.
Politics?
On the defection of Nathalie Elphike MP from the Tories to the Labour Party
Dover’s Dodgy Defector
Films
A short film based on the Radical Walk Canary Wharf & Marx’s Literary Style
Promotional for Canary Wharf & Marx’s Literary Style
Promotional for Red Vienna: Housing Re-Imagined
Radical Walk – Liverpool Street Station – April 2023
Shing Kee – Carl Stone
Don’t tell the others what we were singing – Mathew Sawyer
General Synopsis – The Rootsman
Burn On – Penelope Trappes (Mogwai remix)
Commodity Fetishism 
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