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| Thursday 24 September 2009 |
An epidemic of OCD: Obsessive Carbon Dogma
From living in virtual darkness to minutely measuring their water-use, greens’ fixation with carbon counting is verging on a mental illness.
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| Tuesday 1 September 2009 |
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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| Friday 25 April 2008 |
Three cheers for China’s economic miracle
Development in China has lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty, and in the past decade alone Shanghai has built more skyscrapers than already exist in New York. Listen carefully: this is a good thing.
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| Thursday 26 July 2007 |
Reducing cities to a statistical sprawl
The Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern – all warnings about overpopulation and eco-doom – shows architects have lost their ‘utopian drive’.
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| Monday 30 April 2007 |
On trial in the Red Star gallery
Sam Tanenhaus, the American editor and author of a book on McCarthyism, proves to be a prickly interviewee.
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| Monday 23 April 2007 |
Are environmentalists an oppressed minority?
In TV, film, newspapers, schools and political circles, the green outlook has become the new orthodoxy. And still greens aren't happy.
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| Monday 19 February 2007 |
Steering the debate in the wrong direction
For a government whose transport policy is to punish motorists, the 1.5million who signed a petition against road-pricing are a political pollutant.
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| Thursday 28 September 2006 |
Down with carbon colonialism
Did you know that the money you donate to carbon-offsetting schemes is often spent on programmes that stifle development in the Third World?
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| Tuesday 21 March 2006 |
On the state of English cities
A new government report takes a small-town approach to metropolitan living.
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| Thursday 9 February 2006 |
New Orleans and the New Urban vision
Progressive architects have left the building.
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| Friday 30 September 2005 |
Micro-aspirations
The fashion for microgeneration reveals a sluggish approach to the future.
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| Monday 12 September 2005 |
Lessons from Chicago
Over a hundred years ago, the entire city of Chicago was lifted up above the waterline. Why can't we do the same with New Orleans today?
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| Friday 18 March 2005 |
Keep your eyes on the road
New police powers could turn motorists into outlaws.
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| Wednesday 24 November 2004 |
Charity by extortion
Should speeding motorists pay off the victims of other people's crimes?
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| Tuesday 9 November 2004 |
Off the rails
Reactions to the crash at Ufton Nervet will make our transport system even slower.
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| Thursday 23 September 2004 |
‘I hate driving in my car’
Londoners are being asked to sign a pledge against the four-wheeled demon.
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| Wednesday 28 July 2004 |
Getting us nowhere fast
Think-tanks and pundits are now in the driving seat of Britain's transport policy.
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| Wednesday 7 July 2004 |
The long lens of the law
There's something shifty about the Police Federation’s u-turn on speed cameras.
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| Wednesday 15 October 2003 |
Keeping up appearances
The UK government's new roads policy amounts to filling in pot-holes.
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| Friday 11 July 2003 |
Transport and its discontents
Critics of the UK government’s roads policy say nothing radical, new...or even critical.
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