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Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing, explains @salonium in the new issue of Works in Progress.
BIG NEW piece by me.
A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.
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The central drama of the modern world is innovation against
I haven’t read a magazine for at least a decade. But I have now read every single print issue of Works in Progress back to back.
Not just me. My whole family. Everyone waits for me to finish it so they can read it too.
Do yourself a favor and subscribe. Won’t regret it!
"Britain is now a catch-up country. When you have zero growth, the world becomes a zero-sum game. For you to win, somebody else has to lose, and that is poison."
@s8mb and @PeterMcCormack on how Britain fell so far behind, and what it will take to reverse two decades of decline.
Building uglily makes people fight new housing and development because they care about the way their cities look beyond their immediate neighbourhoods.
Historic preservationism arose as a way to fight architectural modernism; popular architecture is the way to fight back.
Ugly architecture creates powerful coalitions against development. Sceptics about this have misunderstood how these coalitions work. My latest in Works in Progress:
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Western countries used to let landowners build almost anything anywhere. Now, strict