michael edwards

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung #rosalux international meeting. One morning worksop and one in the afternoon. http://www.rosalux.de/event/48108/cross-solidarity-internationale-solidaritaet-in-der-krise.html Some English material at http://cross-solidarity.net/wordpress/?page_id=558

The first part of this is notes on a Workshop “we are all bank tenants”. Later are notes on a second workshop. Do not rely on an statistics or other stuff in here: check with original authors etc. Please do send me corrections or add them as comments at the end.  M

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BEWARE: these are rough notes made as we go along. Do not quote or rely on accuracy until I have checked…

Essen 25 April Continue reading “Essen meeting: RETHINKING CROSS-URBAN SOLIDARITY”

Planning Committee debating London’s future growth, with guest experts. Discussing a paper which is item 5 in

http://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=258&MId=4645

Webcast supposed to be at http://www.london.gov.uk/webcasts/30883/asx tho I can’t make it work. At the end of this post is a letter I just sent to the Chair, Nicky Gavron. Comments welcome

Niky Gavron starts on how we can cope with another million people each decade on present terms.

John Hollis (demographer) stresses that 2011 Census found 1/4 more net international migrants than thought (tho it didn’t explain their status). Continue reading “GLA Assembly debates future growth”

Andy Inch sheffield introducing the manifesto on land and planning drafted by the Planners Network UK. It’s not finished and only a start. It represents as far as we could get among a few of us 4±2…and needs more inputs now.  Public Interest securely at the front, challenging neo-liberal perspectives on urban and regional policy. Continue reading “pnuk Sheffield launch meeting”

At a seminar on reindustrialisation. My notes for talk are

Recall Sam Aaronovich’s London/Berlin conference 1995 at the end of which a Berling green part politician said  “capitalism won’t employ us all: we’ll have to employ each other”. Continue reading “re-industrialisation”

This was a meeting at the TCPA to launch – to a mainly planning gathering – a manifesto drafted by PNUK for a more progressive approach to planning and land in the UK.  Bob Colenutt in the chair. Everyone had been encouraged to read the document in advance  – and most seemed to have done so. Great.

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I have to prepare a talk for a history conference, with an eye on the future. Comments and help welcome.

[Later 9 Feb, I did the talk but now have to convert it into a text.  Really hard to do the talk in 30 minutes. The slides will be here when I can get it small enough to upload.]

The conference is called WINDOWS UPON PLANNING HISTORY. My title was given to me first as Windows on Community Movements in the UK, later as Opening new Windows on Power Structures in the UK but then I submitted an abstract and gave it a new title:

The mirror as a window: what can today’s oppositional practices tell us about future history? Continue reading “The future”

Next Tuesday 5 Feb sees the London launch of the draft Manifesto for planning and land reform prepared by a working group of the Planners Network UK at 1330 (coffee) for 1400 start at the TCPA. Details are below and the draft document is a free download from pnuk.org.uk

Try to read the draft before you come.  There will be a brief summary, then comments from Dr Hugh Ellis (TCPA chief planner), Anna Minton (author of Ground Control and Fortress Britain) and Prof Yvonne Rydin (Director of the UCL Environment Institute) with plenty of time for discussion in a session scheduled to end at 1600h.

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