Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Remembering Jane Jacobs
Jacobs stood in that great American tradition of celebrating the freedom on the individual, the right to privacy and the capacity of autonomous individuals to get along together as part of city life.
Penny Lewis, Foundation for Architecture and Education, September 2011
Facebook doesn’t cause riots – or revolutions
Social media luvvies are outraged that the websites on which they spend every waking hour – Facebook and Twitter – are being held responsible for the recent rioting in England. And they have every right to be outraged. It is daft to blame social upheaval and acts of violence on what are merely tools for communication.
Brendan O'Neill,
Telegraph, 25 August 2011
The Revolution will be Digitised: dispatches from the information war
At the centre is the Establishment: governments, corporations andpowerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.
Heather Brookes, William Heinemann, 18 August 2011
The Revolution will be Digitised: dispatches from the information war
At the centre is the Establishment: governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.
Heather Brooke, William Heinemann,
18 August 2011
What now for the regeneration of London?
Riots always happen when cities consider themselves to be at a high point in terms of their urban development, says Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout
Kieran Long,
Evening Standard, 17 August 2011
Watching my hometown burn
Croydon-boy David Bowden reflects on a week in which his old stomping ground was back on the box once more.
David Bowden,
spiked, 12 August 2011
Long road to World Heritage status
Lijiang, one of the better known trading centres along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and already a World Heritage site, is embroiled in controversy due to its overdevelopment. Located in the Yunnan province, the main stretch of the old town is now home to a long strip of discos, pumping out ethno-techno beats to hordes of tourists.
Chris Gill,
Arts Newspaper, 23 June 2011
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