Like a much loved nanny, we yearn for their warm embrace in times of trouble. This weekend Emily Blunt is set to wow cinema goers in Young Victoria, just as Heston Blumenthal has astonished TV viewers with his remarkable recreation of a Victorian feast for Channel 4. From the BBC's ...
calculating urban densities and so on, and this is the Victorian world writ large. Just as the Victorian middle classes could not escape the diseases of the slums, neither will the rich, bunkered down in their country clubs or inside gated communities. The whole obsession now is ...
Davis: Organization in the slums is, of course, extraordinarily diverse. The subject of the second book – that I’m writing with Forrest Hylton – will be what kinds of trends and unities exist within that diversity. Because in the same city – for instance, in a large Latin American cit...