WRITINGS

In Government, what is a Place, rather than just a space? Primarily, the difference is in the complexity or layering of different kinds of infrastructure - the social, economic, political and community infrastructure that makes it more than just a physical space, be that at the micro-level (a street), or a megacity conurbation. What it isn’t, is a neatly-delineated box of “delivery targets”, with people wandering around as automatons waiting to be experimented upon. It’s an o

With the incoming new Prime Minister in the UK, Andy Burnham, transitioning from a mayor to national-level leader, and against the backdrop of the early success of “pothole politics” in New York from a public engagement perspective, creating a wave of national-level races following this political stance in the US, we’re revisiting what these kinds of sweeping changes require. "Pothole politics": in 1970s Baltimore, facing high taxes and crumbling infrastructure, with low publ