Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
It’s Saturday Morning Municipal Street Lighting Nerd Club. Sticking with Philips, here is the MA50, part of a family of award-winning lanterns developed in the mid-1970s, the largest of which, the MA60, would light much of the UK motorway network in the late 70s and 80s:
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It’s Saturday Morning Municipal Street Lighting Nerd Club. Sticking with Philips, here is the MA50, part of a family of award-winning lanterns developed in the mid-1970s, the largest of which, the MA60, would light much of the UK motorway network in the late 70s and 80s:
"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."
"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."