Ian
Abley
Ian Abley is the Project Manager for
audacity, and an experienced site Architect. He writes sensible specifications,
details construction, and checks the compliance of contractors with contracts.
He is interested in everything between the manufacturing of vacuum insulation
and the building of mile high towers. Ian is helping to plan new settlements
and urban extensions with the 250 New Towns Club, and in that process runs
public drawing workshops based on a 1:50,000 scale map of England.
Short CV
250 New Town Locations
Aims of the 250 New Town Club - Discussion Draft 03
12.03.2012 - Fearing a developer's charter in 2012
Ian co-edited the collection of
essays in Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-machine Age, (2001). He is
co-author of Why is construction so backward? (2004), co-author of
Homes 2016, (2004), and co-editor of an edition of AD , titled
Manmade Modular Megastructures, (2006). He is working on The Dream of
the Vacuum Insulated Home, and is looking for a publisher for the 250 New
Towns Club proposals. Ian is for hire.
Contact...
Ian Abley, 8 College Close,
Hackney, London, E9 6ER
Mobile: 07947 621
790
e-mail: abley@audacity.org
Ian Abley
writes...
One Nation Labour is not a new invention
02.10.2012
Wrong! - Policy Exchange misunderstands planning
20.09.2012
How little space we live in 12.07.2012
Home is a Double Decker Bus refit for Daniel Bond and Stacey
Drinkwater 01.07.2012
Ed Miliband is lying to me 25.06.2012
Pickles Plans a Pogrom 13.04.2011
The awesome mendacity of Eric Pickles
31.03.2011
Zero Eco-Towns 28.03.2011
Britain can't so easily stop the Dependency Culture
31.10.2010
Planning Gain is a loss 01.01.2010
The scramble for housing policy at the start of 2010
30.12.2009
Deluded Housing Minister John Healey celebrates the 1909
Planning Act 10.12.2009
Adam Posen's desperate idea for the Chancellor
03.12.2009
There is no "free market" housing solution, Hugh
27.11.2009
Open all the publicly funded "black box" data that
environmentalists guard as "evidence" 22.11.2009
Don't expect explanation from a McKinsey report
17.11.2009
Predicting the future of British house building
07.11.2009
Who will 33,000 architects house this year?
04.09.2009
The regression of Green Capitalism
27.08.2009
The British Government promotes twenty-first century
eco-thickness 15.07.2009
Prince Charles is Britain's master-eco-fraudster
09.07.2009
Not enough room to "Swing a Cat"
24.06.2009
Kevin McCloud sells the virtue of "eco-thickness"
17.06.2009
Reshuffle 2009 10.06.2009
Hazel Blears is the most unbelievable of Ministers because of
the poverty of her planning law 10.05.2009
Googling plotlands at 10 to 30 homes a hectare
22.04.2009
Where to build in 2009? 14.04.2009
Plotlands as a measure of affordability 75 years on
05.04.2009
Britain doesn't add up 11.03.2009
Energ!se the future now, say James Woudhuysen and Joe
Kaplinsky 30.01.2009
Margaret Beckett's 35 year old broken promise
08.10.2008
We are witnessing a British built "housing crisis" that
Government is powerless to resolve 23.07.2008
Thames Gateway - Closed 11.07.2008
Where are the citizens? 09.07.2008
MANTOWNHUMAN... Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in
Architecture 05.07.2008
Cities can't create a better society
17.05.2008
Austin Williams unpicks Sustainability to identify eight
Enemies of Progress 06.05.2008
Double the population of London - serious growth in the Thames
Gateway 17.04.2008
The Code for Sustainable Homes is broken
19.03.2008
Martin Pawley - Straight to the point
16.03.2008
Gummer might gloat, but he made the Building Research
Establishment what it is today 11.11.2007
Britain's "Consultation Overload" - debated but not
abating 06.11.2007
Blowhard Brown and the eco-towns of Little Britain
13.07.2007
The brick made civilisation possible, and will continue to do
so 01.05.2007
The "housing market collapse" fear is an excuse to avoid
planning for housing production 23.04.2007
In correspondence on
pattern book planning...
Can we look to construction product manufacturers?
Ian Abley writes to Colin Davies, 09.04.2009
Connecting planning with building control Ian Abley
writes to Colin Davies, 05.04.2007
Sustainability is elastic,
and so many charlatans have smuggled so much rubbish into it that you're better
off not using the prefix "sustainable". (1)
 
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