Design, Citizenship and the City
We have a winner!
The 2008 Opportunistic Book Title of the Year Award goes to…
Giles Milton!
Paradise Lost is an account of the great fire that destroyed large parts of the Turkish city of Smyrna in 1922.
Of course it is.
Mr Milton wins a £10 book token for his efforts in getting the book to come up fifth in the Amazon search results for “milton paradise lost”. No small achievement.
To some it must seem the very vision of Utopia: an elegant New England-style enclave with neatly clipped lawns, docile residents and a 9pm curfew for social housing tenants aged under 15.
This is The Hamptons — not the real ones on Long Island, New York but a housing development in the south London suburb of Worcester Park.
But as ever there is trouble in paradise, or at least the contemporary spectre we call the fear of crime and “anti-social behaviour”.