A single fact says everything about what’s happened to the UK economy in the past 40 years. In 1978 aged 23, I purchased a two-bedroom flat in South Tottenham, an unfashionable suburb of London about five miles from Piccadilly Circus,…
Category: Cities
The explosive growth of cities is a bigger challenge than global warming
Will Hutton, the British journalist and economist, has an article in The Observer today which says that cities are the future and the growth of intangibles is a key factor in their development. “Economists observe that bringing people together in…