I hadn't heard about this until reading an article in today's Guardian in praise of "15-Minute Cities".
Based on Clarence Perry's early 1900s "Neighbourhood Unit" concept, in theory, it all sounds perfectly sensible and its supporters describe it thus "you should have your daily needs – work...
It even has some ones I hadn’t heard about before.
Covent Garden: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
Articles Here:
https://www.spookyisles.com/covent-garden-haunted-ghosts/
The age of the urban ape
New research shows that humans haven't stopped evolving – could a city habitat be the end of us, asks the distinguished anthropologist.
By Desmond Morris
9:08PM BST 04 May 2012
The scientific discovery, announced this week in the journal Proceedings of the National...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7568844.stm
It's one of those news reports that has barely any substance at all until you realise that its probably part of a build up to a '6 part' series on the supernatural that will be shown in Jan 2009 in association with the NI paranormal...
I recently "learned" that a street near where I grew up, innocuously called Blagreaves Lane, was named after a corruption of the term "Black Graves", so named because it is built over the site of mass graves dug for victims of the black death. I say "learned" in inverted commas as it seems to be...
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