Almost everyone in the UK agrees that we need to build more houses, indeed many more houses, if we are to provide adequate, and affordable, housing for those who need it. Last year we built 140,000 new houses, but it… Read More ›
Transport
Robert Moses: Master Builder of New York and Infrastructure Dynamo
I have recently read Robert Caro’s 1974 biography of Robert Moses: The Power Broker – Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. It is a massive book, at 1,162 pages, as readers of Caro’s four volume biography of Lyndon… Read More ›
Second visit to the London green belt – Dagenham
My second visit to the London green belt was to Dagenham, in east London. This is not such a salubrious area as Hadley Wood, the site of my first visit, but there is a substantial area of green belt very… Read More ›
A visit to the green belt at Hadley Wood, Enfield (North East London)
I recently visited part of London’s green belt, in the area of Hadley Wood. This was one of a series of trips I have made to areas around the capital where urgently needed new housing might be built if local councils… Read More ›
Tower Bridge Museum and Engine Rooms
I was intrigued by news of a “glass floor” at the Tower Bridge Museum here in London and visited this weekend for the first time. The glass floor did indeed measure up to expectations. It runs down the middle of… Read More ›
The Magical Combination of Public Transport and IT
I have long believed that technology is most effective when it helps us to do the things we have always done, better and more efficiently. This is obviously the case for readers, with newspapers, magazines and books now being easily… Read More ›
Michael Ingle - Interesting Times 