Russell Davies

There are elevated pipe systems all over Berlin. The pipes run alongside the streets and over the roads and look very industrial. For some reason, something half-remembered or half- read, I became convinced that the …

This is one of the fragments I highlighted in Olivia Lang's The Garden Against Time: "the gay utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, who established a cross-class vegetative Eden in a smallholding in Derbyshire." It cropped up …

The other thing I like about Vienna cafe culture is that there's a little exhibit in a top museum devoted to Adolf Loos' designs for, confusingly, Cafe Museum.