by NRB | 2 Jun 2020 | Non-fiction |
Graeme Davison’s City Dreamers celebrates the visionaries of urban planning and looks at how their dreams have evolved. Historian Graeme Davison has spent much of his academic life thinking about cities, as is evident from his many essays, and especially from...
by NRB | 29 May 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Continuing my interest in themed popular songs, I lighted on the idea of songs celebrating the physical and social attributes of cities. There are a number of songs that mention cities, but celebrating is a different matter. Will Fyffe’s ‘I Belong to Glasgow’, for...
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