Digest #5 – Sheppard Robson’s Shopping City in Wood Green, Jan Kattein’s Blue House Yard, The Walmart effect and more…
Tuesday 11th February 2025: Northwards again, this time to Sunny Wood Green where a 1970s bit of utopian planning still endures, and then back in time to 1960s Venezuela…
There’s a poem about Wood Green which my friend – we’ll call him ‘Fred’ – introduced me to. It’s called Health and Wellbeing At Wood Green Job Centre by Jack Jones. It’s more of a song, really, or perhaps a blend of the two. Either way, it doesn’t paint the best picture:
God I don't want to be Another doubting Thomas
But from where I'm standing
There's not…
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