“London is deeply uncivilised now and public space has become uncouth. There has been a universal outbreak of incivility.” Boris Johnson, Shadow (When Education Secretary, before becoming the Mayor of London, and later Prime Minister.) From blogs, through tabloids to broadsheet op-eds, popular discourse about cities has long been strewn with treatise bemoaning the rudeness of twenty-first century cities life. We all know the complaints. Commuters pushing onto the train without letting that little […]
via Sick Cities, Ill Manners by Alex Rhys-Taylor — Streetsigns