Unanswered 9: Cities

Unanswered

Cities: Hulking great machines keeping its populace in sportswear and takeaway coffees, hiring people to sell sportswear and takeaway coffees. With our attention so divided between threats, opportunities and more bus stop ads than you could shake Adam Sandler at, are we able to focus on anything but the next few minutes?

Steev and Nick are your tour guides of a ramshackle conversation covering African tribes; cherry bakewells; suburban sprawl; Hitler’s legacy, and The Wow Factor.

Curiously, Hitler’s Legacy and The Wow Factor are on tour to your city later in the year.

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Show Notes

• “City living ‘makes it hard to concentrate’” by Sean Coughlan, BBC News; February 20th 2013
• Press release from Goldsmith’s, University of London: “Living in an urban environment reduces our ability to concentrate on tasks”; February 18th 2013
• According to Wikipedia: City
• According to Wikipedia: Metropolis
• According to Wikipedia: Namibia
• IMDB: The Mosquito Coast (1986)
• YouTube: The Mosquito Coast (1986) trailer ↓

• YouTube: Russian roads from a dash-cam’s point of view ↓

• YouTube: Office Space TPS Reports ↓

• YouTube: Mr Kipling Cherry Bakewells mini review ↓

• According to Wikipedia: Mr Kipling
• ITV: Emmerdale
• According to Wikipedia: Emmerdale
• YouTube: “Wide Open Space” by Mansun ↓

• Beeb’s News
• According to Wikipedia: Orton, Peterborough
• According to Wikipedia: Owen Hatherley
• Owen Hatherley’s Blogspot
• “Southampton: What’s next for this major port turned mega-retail park?” by Owen Hatherley, BD Online; February 6th 2009
• “Southampton Trawl—Addenda” by Owen Hatherley; February 7th 2009
• “Down and Out in Eastleigh” by Owen Hatherley; December 19th 2009
• According to Wikipedia: Southampton
• The Wow Factor section
  • The Wow Factor: “City’s Laser Gateway plans dimmed” by BBC News; January 29th 2007
  • The Wow Factor: “How about illuminating Itchen Bridge to bring the ‘Wow Factor’ to Southampton” by This Is Hampshire; July 7th 2007
  • The Wow Factor: “Spitfire and mural fail the Southampton wow factor test” by Southern Daily Echo; August 7th 2007
  • The Wow Factor: “Southampton to get £120,000 city model as ‘Wow’ factor” by Peter Law, Southern Daily Echo; September 30th 2007
  • The Wow Factor: “Southampton’s vision of the future is put on hold” by Peter Law, Southern Daily Echo; October 26th 2008
• According to Wikipedia: Eastleigh
• Open University: OU on the BBC—The Secret History of Our Streets
• “Why have the white British left London?” by Mark Easton, BBC News; February 20th 2013
• According to Wikipedia: Simon Spurrier

Details

• Recorded: 20 February 2013
• Running time: 0:49’48
• Bad language: Yes [1x f*ck; 1x bullsh*t]
• Feature image source: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-pictures-north-korea-2011-7?op=1
  
• Archive.org page