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Slowdown Papers

The Slowdown Papers are a series of observations, reflections and loose extrapolations, based on the early impact of the Coronavirus COVID–19 pandemic, particularly on the way we make decisions about cities, systems, infrastructures, cultures, and technologies.

Third batch of Papers
19. The waters draw back, only to return

19. The waters draw back, only to return

The first waves of COVID-19 have revealed much; The ‘flailing states’ produced by the Anglo-American model; The ambient…
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Sep 23, 2020
20. Wait, what?

20. Wait, what?

I know what you did last summer
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Sep 23, 2020
21. Clear skies, full parks, can’t lose

21. Clear skies, full parks, can’t lose

Is the curve beyond the curve fading, or become clearer?
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Sep 23, 2020
22. Revisiting the Slowdown, and the end of the Great Acceleration

22. Revisiting the Slowdown, and the end of the Great Acceleration

Danny Dorling’s book ‘Slowdown’ on how the engine driving the Great Acceleration is being dismantled; Japan, Greece, and the Nordics as…
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Sep 23, 2020
23: Slowdown landscapes: Flattening the curve on the city centre

23: Slowdown landscapes: Flattening the curve on the city centre

The new cultures of living and working are flattening the curve on the city centre; New York, Manchester, Red Dead Redemption; the end of…
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Sep 23, 2020
24. Slowdown landscapes: The care and repair of our suburbs

24. Slowdown landscapes: The care and repair of our suburbs

Retrofit over new build; greening the grey, greying the green; urbanising the suburban, and suburbanising the urban; making the suburbs…
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Sep 23, 2020
25. Slowdown landscapes: Building blocks for care and repair of the city

25. Slowdown landscapes: Building blocks for care and repair of the city

Retrofit and repair, in a Slowdown neighbourhood; a colourful patchwork city of loosely-joined building blocks; collaboratives…
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Sep 23, 2020
26. Defunding downstream, moving upstream, taking care, making repair

26. Defunding downstream, moving upstream, taking care, making repair

Defunding not only the police, but the hospital and social services too; cooks as health workers, police as care workers; a city of…
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Sep 23, 2020
27. Events are not enough

27. Events are not enough

Learning from the 1973 oil crisis, with its car-free streets, reduced consumption, and toilet paper hoarding; Tarpaulins on glaciers, and…
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Sep 23, 2020
28. Slowdown landscapes: Small pieces, loosely joined

28. Slowdown landscapes: Small pieces, loosely joined

How the virus reinforces the value of different patterns for our social infrastructure, infrastructure, farming, and habitation.
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Sep 23, 2020
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