Dale Farm residents face up to the Riot Police

1. Ian Abley, trying to articulate an audacious political and economic aim, 31 October 2011

2. Antonio Sant'Elia, The Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, published in Lacerba, Florence, 1 August 1914, in Umbro Apollonio, editor, Futurist Manifestos, Museum of Fine Arts Publications, Boston, 2001, p 160 to 172

3. James Heartfield, Green Capitalism - Manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance, www.heartfield.org, 2008, p 91, with details of how to buy posted here

4. Professor Dave Chandler, 'Politics as Religion', CSD Bulletin, Centre for the Study of Democracy, London, Summer 2007, Vol 14, p 23 to 25, posted on www.wmin.ac.uk, an edited extract of his inaugural lecture, 'The Attraction of Post-Territorial Politics: Ethics and Activism in the International Sphere', University of Westminster, London, 2 May 2007; see also www.davidchandler.org

5. Martin Pawley, in his keynote speech at the inaugural audacity conference, Building Audacity, The Building Centre, London, 10 July 2000, posted here

6. James Heartfield, Coalition of the unwilling, New Geography, 7 January 2011, posted here

250 New Towns - The club for people with big plans to build

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Plotlands as a measure of housing affordability 75 years on

Frank Lloyd Wright's 1956 Mile High Illinois

Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age

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Our aim is to industrialise Earth to the advantage of 7,000,000,000 people and revolutionise our lives. (1)

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Renzo Piano's 2011 Central St Giles, London

The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, 20 February 1909

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Dale Farm residents face eviction from their own land

The 20 New Labour Eco-Towns that will never be built

100,000 homes a year is all that will be built in Britain unless we organise against the Town and Country planning system

Map of English residential land prices in 2007

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Yuri Gagarin before launch of Vostok 1, 12 April 1961

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250 New Towns Club supports the National Housing Federation's campaign - Don't mention the housing crisis

FUTURISM, Tate Modern, London, 12 June to 20 September 2009

zero carbon nonsense from the Zero Carbon Hub

Things will endure less than us. Every generation must build its own city. (2)

Environmentalism is the ideology of capitalism in retreat from production. (3)

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Unless we bring politics back down to earth from heaven our critical, social and intellectual lives will be diminished. (4)

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Predicting the future of British house building 07.11.2009

We are witnessing a British built "housing crisis" that Government is powerless to resolve 23.07.2008

The regression of Green Capitalism 27.08.2009

Sustainability... another way of deciding who is in charge. (5)

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We had Labour against socialism. Now we have a Conservative government shy about capitalism. (6)

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click here for Why is construction so backward? by James Woudhuysen, Ian Abley, Stefan Muthesius and Miles Glendinning, published by John Wiley & Sons 2004

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