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‘The view from the train: cities and other landscapes’ (2013)

Robinson's journey in 1992, which is a fictional narrative with real events & images, makes me rethink of the city, LONDON . . #film #london #patrickkeiller #uk #1994 #trilogy #robinsoninspace #ribinsoninruins #mmcafilmandvideo (at Seoul, South Korea)

“There were no mitigating circumstances; the press, the voting system, the impropriety of Tory party funding. None of these could explain away the fact that the middle class in England had continued to vote Conservative because in their miserable hearts they still believed it was in their interest to do so” From Patrick Keiller’s 'London' (1994), narrated by Paul Scofield. 

Cities are the frontlines upon, within and around which our most fundamental struggles are daily fought. Take, to begin with, those struggles for things as simple and yet somehow complicated as workers’ rights, gender equality and racial parity – and the active, top-down struggles against these. Take the drive for profit and for surplus capital, and the explicit and unspoken suspicions, prejudices and hostilities that these underpin – and then movements that challenge them, from the Paris Commune to Occupy.

Lee would like to thank Emma Warren, a Tallis parent and journalist, for permission to use extracts from her wonderful blog about Oxleas Woods.