Stories
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Walk, interrupted
By listing all the things that get in her way, Caroline Butterwick wants to create an embodied experience of disability and convince you that inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.
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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Unsound speculative schemes (tunneling, gas lighting and stock breeding), with W.H. Brown in attendance next to a statue of Hope. Aquatint by S. De Wilde, 1809.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: 1 October 1809Reference: 38405i- Books
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A letter to Mr. John Spranger, on his excellent proposal for paving, cleansing, and lighting the streets of Westminster, and the parishes in Middlesex. By Mr. J. Hanway.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1754- Books
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An answer to A short essay on the scheme lately set on foot for lighting and keeping clean the streets of the city of Exeter. Demonstrating the pernicious and fatal effects with which it would have been attended.
Date: 1755- Books
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An essay on the means hitherto employed for lighting streets, and the interior of houses; and on those which may be substituted with advantage in their stead; Intended as an Attempt Towards the Improvement of this Branch of Domestic Economy, by Increasing the Effects of Light, and Diminishing It's Expence. With Explanatory Figures. By J. G. J. B. Count Thiville.
Thiville, J. G. J. B., Count.Date: 1800- Books
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An Act for the better relief and employment of the poor of the hamlet of Mile-end New Town, in the parish of Stepney, in the county of Middlesex; for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the streets, and other open passages and places, within the said hamlet, and removing nuisances and annoyances therefrom, and preventing the like for the future; for consolidating the highway rates with other rates within the said hamlet; and for paving and regulating Great Garden Street, in the parish of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise Whitechapel, in the said county, and removing a bar now standing across the same, and other nuisances and annoyances therefrom, and preventing the like for the future.
Great Britain.Date: 1780]