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So Much Wind – The Myth of Green Energy and Empire, Industry and Class: the Imperial Nexus of Jute 1840-1940
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Kick Up The Tabloids
24 BURGERS FOR 99P: ‘LUCKY YOU GOT HORSE’
Issue 74: What’s a City For?
Is the modern city designed only for commercial interests? What does this mean for democracy, and for residents? Plus public ownership, private schooling, PFI ownership, a year of the Reid Foundation and what next for Radical Independence?
Comment: What’s a City For?
The modern city is a system for farming its residents and visitors on behalf of the retail and leisure sectors. How did we let this happen?
A Social Scottish Townscape
Malcolm Fraser argues that viewing our towns through the windscreen of a car has led to fragmented and dislocated communities. He outlines how he hopes his Town Centre review will help to change this.
Open for Business
Eoin Anderson, Neil Gray and Emily Roff look at just how far public and corporate interests have merged in the mind of Glasgow City Council, and what it means for the democratic city
Don’t Get Malled
Ewan Morrison explains how researching shopping malls for his novel opened his eyes to corruptions, distortions and ommissions which hide the real negative impact they have on our cities and our communities
Conflicted Space
Ronan Paddison explains that the diverse users of city centre public spaces make them easy for the elites to appropriate. They are spaces produced for us, not with us.
Re-Imagining Public Ownership
Andrew Cumbers calls for the left to develop the case for nationalisation and mutualisation in a 21st century context – and for mainstream politics to listen
Declaration of Interdependence
Everyone knows Iceland had a financial crisis but not enough people know what happened next. Susan Pettie explained how Iceland managed a radical process for creating a new, democratic constitution.