Proposals to develop the site currently occupied by the Museum of London have provoked strong opposition. I’ve used Wakelet to curate the first week’s campaign coverage and tweets. More in this earlier post about the Cash versus Culture discussion that has echoes from 50 years ago, when the Barbican Arts Centre was the focus. View … Continue reading “Curating coverage of the London Wall West debate”
Update April 2023: The City Corporation are planning a spectacular City-wide Bartholomew Fair in September. Next year Barts Hospital and St Bartholomew the Great celebrate 900 years of service. The Fair that was started to help fund their work became a huge success – but was eventually closed down for encouraging debauchery and public disorder. … Continue reading “Restaging Bartholomew Fair on the ground and online”
Plans to redevelop the site of the Museum of London, and a nearby office block, re-awaken an old argument for the City of London. The London Wall West site is on the edge of the Barbican Estate, and it is just over 50 years since the City faced a development decision at the heart of … Continue reading “City and campaigners revisit Cash vs Culture 50 years on”
I’m starting this blog about connecting people and ideas in part to follow through past work on Networked City and Exploring EC1. Those projects focussed on how to use different types of maps and media to help make connections and build relationships. I now want to look further at how to put those methods into … Continue reading “Starting this blog”
When Oliver Bennett, editor of the excellent EC1 Echo, invited me to write a column, I focussed on the many different names we use for local neighbourhoods. Smithfield, Farringdon, Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Barbican, Barts Square, Clerkenwell, St Luke’s, Finsbury are a few. It set me wondering how far this detracts from any shared sense of community. … Continue reading “Does a name follow a sense of community or vice versa?”