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Local Democracy

Articles from before August 2020 are available on Martin’s archive site…

15 minute neighbourhoods and the rise of climate denialism

July 18, 2025April 24, 2023

It is a strange feeling being at the centre of a national and international ‘culture war’ storm. And even stranger that that storm is about a planning theory. But that has been how it has been for the past 10 months living on a fairly unprepossessing street off a somewhat down-at-heel main road, Cowley Road, …

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Categories Articles, Local Democracy, Planning & Regeneration

Recent Articles

  • Play, education, creativity and activism: the legacies of Colin WardJanuary 8, 2025
  • Colin Ward and everyday anarchist solutions: allotments and other makeshift landscapesAugust 4, 2024
  • Oxfordshire County Council Staff Cricket Club: a social history in microcosmAugust 3, 2024
  • Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchyJuly 9, 2024
  • Architecture and anarchy: another world is possibleAugust 25, 2023

Articles from before August 2020 are available on Martin’s archive site…

Latest on the blog

  • Bellyache Bush: decolonising Jamaican floraAugust 12, 2025
  • Soil: the world at our feetFebruary 14, 2025
  • The garden at Kelmscott ManorApril 30, 2024
  • Gerard’s Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes: a garden book for the agesFebruary 21, 2024
  • Cultivate: lost for a bunch of carrots?June 12, 2023

Blog posts from before July 2021 are available on Martin’s archive site…

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