Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
How to fix French urban policy?
As car torchings taper off due among other things to a substantially increased police presence …
The chart is out of date: just under 10,000 cars torched but a continuing downward trend
… President Chirac’s ninety-day extension of the state of emergency has bought the French government a brief respite — but to [...]
[Continued from Part 1, posted yesterday]
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Council housing and what it replaced, Liverpool
Council blocks, Edinburgh
Some went up, some went out, but [...]
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards… Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
– Sun Tzu, The [...]
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They are not a replay of France’s uprising of 1968 [...]
After the riots, what’s it going to be then?
Where I lived was with my dadda and mum in the flats of Municipal Flatblock 18A, between Kingsley Avenue and Wilsonsway. I got to the big main door with no trouble, through I did pass one young malchick sprawling and creeching and moaning in the gutter, all [...]
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