Our dirty towns.

Sprawl Save Our Land , Save Our Towns

Can tourism be the catalyst for urban preservation while permitting the continuation of urban culture? Only if local distinctiveness, rather than preserved monuments, is what attracts tourists to an historic region, argues Orba̧sli. The author advocates preservation through a planning-management approach. This approach avoids façadism (i.e., preservation of the physical elements only), and inste...

Evacuation, hygiene, and social policy: the "Our Towns" Report of 1943.

. There has recently been much debate about social policy in Britain during the Second World War. This article takes up Jose Harris’s suggestion that historians should look not at largescale forces, but at ‘ those minuscule roots of idiosyncratic private culture ’. As a way into the complex amalgam that comprised ideas on social policy in the ‰„€s, we look in particular at the report o...

Improving air quality: national plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide in our towns and cities

The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change welcomes this opportunity to respond to Defra/DfT consultation on its Air Quality Plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide emissions in the UK. The draft plan rightly notes that poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK and disproportionately impacts vulnerable groups, including the elderly, children and people already suffe...

Feeding birds in our towns and cities: a global research opportunity

Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’

Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 22 / Issue 02 / December 2015, pp 146 149 DOI: 10.1017/S1380203815000203, Published online: 02 November 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1380203815000203 How to cite this article: Monica L. Smith (2015). Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’. Archaeological Dialogues, 22, pp 146-149 doi:10.1017/S1380203815000203 ...