PUBLIC MARKS with tag londres

The only question I can legitimately ask is: why is this happening?

For too long we, society, have turned our noses up at the hoodies. We never wanted to hug them. We wanted to demonise them, exclude them from school, not employ them, lock them up, and then release them into the same situation to repeat.

D’un côté, j’ai réussi à briser le cycle de la pauvreté et de l’isolement grâce à l’éducation.

If you can’t imagine a situation being bad enough to lead to rioting, you’re so fucking privileged it hurts.

I could go on, but most of you have made up your minds. You get the society you create. Enjoy it

Lots of the activity going on in London is based on open source warfare precepts.  Much more going on here than a simple riot or looting.  It's a learning lab. 

"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"

This is not a recent development; those kids at the bottom have always been there.

Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis. They are not about poor parenting, or youth services being cut, or any of the other snap explanations that media pundits have been trotting out: structural inequalities, as a friend of mine remarked today, are not solved by a few pool tables. People riot because it makes them feel powerful, even if only for a night.

Documentary photographer Belinda Lawley's study of people travelling on the tube in London is comprised of portraits of travellers on escalators in several stations. Each diagonal line in the composite image shows a different escalator on one day last year

Site-specific map plotting the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within

London. Power lines are drawn in pencil on the back of the map which conduct the electricity

from the radio to the front of poster. Placing a metal pushpin onto each station then allows

us to listen to the sound broadcast live from that location.

Map Of London 1868, By Edward Weller, F.R.G.S.

Revised And Corrected To The Present Time By John Dower, F.R.G.S.

City of London’s Open Data Initiative has been released.

The UK is now the most surveyed country in the world. We have an obsession with voyeurism, privacy laws, freedom of media, and surveillance – images captured and relayed on camera phones, YouTube or reality TV.

Floating City 2030: Thames Estuary Aquatic Urbanism - Recycling Ships and Marine Structures

Anthony Lau, Bartlett School of Architecture, London (2008)

For that project, Lau designed a "floating city" for the Thames Estuary, ca. 2030 A.D. This "Thames Estuary Aquatic Urbanism," as Lau refers to it, "gives new life to decommissioned ships and oil platforms by converting them into hybrid homes adapted for aquatic living."