Vitruvius …. firmitas, utilitas, and venustas …. quality, or beauty? …. How does it Matter? If Planning looks after Commodity (utilitas-usefulness) Building Control checks firmitas-Firmness (make sure it stays standing up), Who looks after Delight (Quality, venustas-Beauty)?

GREEN ISSUES – How Nine Elms Might Have Been

Societies – The Great Housing Direction Change

Casual Destruction Should Not Be an Option

Love it – Hate it? What Can Be Done About The Dratted Motor Car?

Eyes that Often See – Commonplace but Real Art

Planning Densities are Daft

Combe Pafford a new Village within the existing Town of Torquay

North Kensington, not quite Barbican

Grenfell Tower should have been much, much better.

London has Basements but Many Cities are Multi-Level

Are Villages the Height of Beauty – are they the Best Places to Live?

Communities Make a Difference – Saving Local Places of Value

Quality, Beauty and Standards

Housing in Singapore – Copying London’s Barbican Principles?

Urban Villages that have become a part of Towns or Cities – Battersea

Rural Historic Villages – Thorverton near Exeter