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Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

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Sharing Nature: Parks for people

Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.

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  • [Leaflet (1880?) advertising appearances by The Lilliputian Monarchs: the Australian General Tom Thumb and Commodore Knott at the Horns Assembly Rooms (Kennington, London, England). Printed on pale green paper].
  • Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London.
  • A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
  • Sanitary ramblings. Being sketches and illustrations of Bethnal Green. A type of the condition of the Metropolis and other large towns / [Hector Gavin].
  • The blind beggar of Bethnal Green. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1804, after W. Owen.
  • "Spiromol" solutions.
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  • Some interesting recipes : Allinson self-raising wholewheat cake-flour : makes wonderful cakes and pastry / Allinson Limited.
  • Try these exciting recipes : Allinson pastrycook self-raising flour : a really superb flour / Allinson Ltd.
  • Try these exciting recipes : Allinson pastrycook self-raising flour : a really superb flour / Allinson Ltd.
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