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Inheritance — forthcoming

New book publishing on May 6, 2021

Jan 27, 2021

Jan 27, 2021

Leo Hollis

It’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the neighbourhood

There is an twitter post from Middle Class Fancy, that seems to circulate every summer, when the temperature starts to rise that shows a…

Jul 18, 2022

It’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the neighbourhood

Jul 18, 2022

Leo Hollis

Mechanical Philosophy

Robert Hooke, Thomas Tompion and the clockwork universe

Sep 6, 2018

Sep 6, 2018

Leo Hollis

The Making of Urban Time

The craftsman’s signature sits at the bottom of the square dial: Samuel Knibb London feci: There is no date on the device but it it thought…

Sep 6, 2018

Sep 6, 2018

Leo Hollis

‘Time is The Emperor of All Things’

I was invited to contribute an introduction to a new exhibition of 17th century clocks that is currently running here. This work is more…

Sep 6, 2018

Sep 6, 2018

Leo Hollis

Who Owns the Smart City?

This is a recorded version of my talk at Karlsruhe Dialogs on the problem with the Internet of Things, smart cities and the threat of…

Apr 17, 2018

Leo Hollis

Trust: Data, Cities, Democracy

As Tim Berners Lee said recently: ‘We don’t have a technology problem, we have a social problem.’

Apr 5, 2018

Apr 5, 2018

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Pandemonium: The Inclusive City

It seems as if ‘for all’ is becoming the destination in many urbanist discussions of the moment.

Nov 13, 2016

Leo Hollis

‘Imagine an Ordinary Street Corner’. Rethinking the City

The discussion of the future city, of how the internet of things [IoT] will have a huge impact on the economy of the city. How it will…

Oct 27, 2016

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Why I Walk

At a recent event, I was asked by a number of people why I did what I did? Why was I so interested in cities? where did it all start? I…

Oct 19, 2016

Oct 19, 2016