Am reading Nan Fairbrother's New Lives, New Landscapes (1970). It's so brilliant, that I was inspired to research and rewrite her Wikipedia entry (although it still won't tell you much, if you go there), and I quoted from it for my talk last Friday for the Interaction Design Group. For anyone interested in the history of landscape, land-use, urban ( Read more... )

I finally got around to watching the DVD my mother gave me for Christmas, The Sheltering Sky. I can't quite believe it's taken me this long to see it, not least because a whole chapter of my PhD was devoted to Paul Bowles, author of the novel it's based on ( Read more... )