


1. Ian Abley, quoted by Mark Key, Sustainable Masonry Construction, Garston, Watford, IHS BRE Press, 2009, p 90			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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