Archive for category: Voices

• Predictions for London’s 2012

  Second only to the tradition of reviewing the year just gone by are the predictions of doom for the year ahead. 2012 has seen a bumper crop from predictions of global war, planetary climate collapse or economic meltdown. So many different dooms have been foreseen for humanity that the four horsemen have […]

   

• The six best bits of London’s 2011

  So 2011 is over, half of London’s population seems to have lurgy of some form or another and all the media predictions for 2012 are so down beat they are making us hope that Mayan prophecies of the apocalypse were right. However, it’s traditional to take a look back at the year […]

   

• The architecture of transport: All froth and no coffee

  David Mentiply looks at how Boris prioritises form over function London’s post-war architecture gets a bad rap. Buildings like the Barbican, the Southbank Centre and Royal Festival Hall are derided as grey and ugly. All three undoubtedly favour function over form. But they were built to serve a purpose, not for […]

   

• The New Ruins of London

  Natalie Bennett takes a look at the needs of communities and developers. When I look back at my personal blog I find that it is five years now since I did the first, and so far my only, leg of the Garden of England cycle route, but having now read Owen […]

   

• A year in the life of Islington Living Streets

  Islington Living Streets has had a year of great achievements all on the back of persistent, hard work

   

• The Joys of South London buses

  Life-long Brixtonite, Esther Webber, is a bus obsessive. Here, she talks about the joys of South London buses Anyone who knows me knows how much I love buses. I ride them every day to work, and every other opportunity I get. There is something about buses quite unlike any other […]

   

• The future needs old fashioned technology

  Last week Islington and Camden council’s held an historic joint summit on air pollution. Natalie Bennett reports. Last week’s Camden/Islington Air Quality summit has been well covered, from a primarily Islington perspective, by both Caroline Russell and Caroline Allen (and the Islington Tribune on the resultant political row), so I […]

   

• Air pollution – let’s not “dilly dally”

  There has been a great deal of work done in Islington and Camden on “air quality” (pollution to you and me). Highbury on Foot blogger Caroline Russell reports. Yesterday I attended a Camden and Islington Air Quality Summit at Camden Town Hall. The Council Chamber was packed to hear what […]

   

• It’s time to democratise the city

  The Occupation protest puts the curious non-democratic status of the City under the spotlight, argues Natalie Bennett Green Party London Assembly candidate The Corporation of the City of London has withstood a lot. It withstood William the Conqueror, who agreed “to establish the citizens in all the rights and privileges […]

   

• Sort out cycling Boris!

  We can address cycling deaths in London, but we aren’t, argues Jim Jepps “If Transport for London’s roads were a factory it would have been closed down with this number of deaths and accidents.” So said Hampstead resident Tom Kearney at Camden Council’s Road Safety hearing on Wednesday night. The […]