Tag: Urban planning
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Paul Draper – Omega Man featuring Steven Wilson
Paul Draper formerly of Mansun has a new album about to drop called ‘Cult Leader Tactics’ about the music industry, and this song recorded in lockdown with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree summed up my current feels – love the footage from Pripyat (Chernobyl) also – must have been fun shooting that with recent tensions…
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The Abandoned Mansions of London
There are quite a few mansions in London which are empty – appallingly given the housing crisis. Whole areas are bought up by foreign (and probably dodgy) oligarchs and left to rot, an investment rather than a home. Here is a fascinating look at the dilapidated towers of capitalism in one street in North London.…
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Ghost Towns
I seem to have been looking at a lot of ghost towns in the last few days…not sure why, but like their maritime counterparts shipwrecks and aircrashes there’s something haunting about them. I’ve even done my fair share of exploring ruins, usually of the more remote and open kind in the Highlands (there are a…