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James Heartfield
Shire Tories and greens are denying Brits homes
The claim that the Lib-Cons are planning to concrete over large parts of Britain’s green land is wrong - unfortunately.
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| Thursday 24 February 2011 |
Tim Black
Eco-towns: a parable of a wet and wimpy state
Eco-towns, we were told, would help to ‘save the planet’ and provide thousands of new homes. Tim Black investigates why they were never built.
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| Thursday 16 December 2010 |
Tim Abrahams
The skyline’s the limit for London
The Shard shows we’re more than capable of building big if we elbow aside conservative views of the capital.
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| Thursday 7 January 2010 |
Karl Sharro
What’s wrong with towering ambition?
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest manmade structure in history, stands in glorious contrast to the pessimism of the West.
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| Wednesday 2 December 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
A Sodom and Gomorrah for secular miserabilists
Dubai’s crisis has been cheered by Western observers, for whom the ‘ecocidal’ Gulf state is a symbol of everything rancid about modernity.
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| Wednesday 2 December 2009 |
Vicky Francis
Dubai’s Sheikhy foundations
A freelance writer in Dubai says snobbery about its wacky buildings is a poor substitute for serious debate about its economy.
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| Tuesday 1 September 2009 |
Austin Williams
Dongtan: the eco-city that never was
China’s first big eco-city has been put on hold, not because it was too ambitious, but because it wasn’t ambitious enough.
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| Thursday 21 May 2009 |
Vicky Richardson
Why I heckled the Prince of Wales
She’s been branded a ‘naughty girl’ for shouting ‘Abolish the monarchy!’ during Charles’s RIBA lecture. But Vicky Richardson has no regrets.
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| Tuesday 10 February 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Living in filth is no lifestyle choice
Sadhvi Sharma reports from Bombay on the reality of the slums that Prince Charles hailed as paragons of community life.
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| Monday 26 January 2009 |
James Heartfield
Dale Farm rebellion against eco-elitism
The gypsies in Basildon, England, are being evicted for sinning against that sacred cow: the English Countryside.
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| Monday 8 December 2008 |
Dominic Standish
The death of Venice is greatly exaggerated
Dominic Standish reports from Venice on how residents and visitors coped with the highest floods in 20 years.
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| Tuesday 26 August 2008 |
Alastair Donald
‘We must break the limits of previous generations’
The creator of the world's first rotating skyscraper talks to spiked about changing the Dubai skyline and challenging post-9/11 gloom.
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| Tuesday 15 July 2008 |
James Heartfield
Who demolished the housing industry?
The UK’s housebuilders are laying off thousands of staff while millions struggle to buy a home - all thanks to the anti-growth lobby.
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| Thursday 3 July 2008 |
Karl Sharro
Why it’s time to demolish Robin Hood Gardens
The co-author of a new architectural manifesto says tearing down the brutalist housing estate is fully in the spirit of modernism.
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| Thursday 19 June 2008 |
Lorraine Gamman
Design can cut crime
The director of the Design Against Crime Centre responds to Martyn Perks’ claim that designers are bowing down to the UK government’s authoritarian agenda.
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| Thursday 1 May 2008 |
Tim Black
Seeing red over the Green Belt
Green Belt protectors cried ‘not an inch!’, while their opponents insisted that ‘people must come first’. Sparks flew at last night’s spiked debate.
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| Tuesday 22 April 2008 |
Paul Miner
Keep the Green Belt buckled
Ahead of next week’s spiked debate on the future of the Green Belt, one speaker appeals for its continued preservation. Buy your tickets now.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
James Woudhuysen
Brown's 'get fit' towns:
Kim Jong-il would be proud
With its new towns that will force people to keep fit, New Labour is pushing an authoritarian health agenda that will be the envy of tinpot dictators.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
James Heartfield
Fifteen myths about the housing crisis
Government slothfulness, combined with the green lobby's snobbery towards the masses and their 'ugly houses', is the cause of Britain's shocking homes shortfall.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
David Clements
Bricks, mortar and social engineering
The authorities built more houses in the Depressed 1930s than New Labour is planning to build today. Britain's housing crisis is built on a failure of political imagination.
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