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Inheritance — forthcoming

New book publishing on May 6, 2021

2 min readJan 27, 2021

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Inheritance — forthcoming

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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…

5 min readJul 18, 2022

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

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Leo Hollis

Mechanical Philosophy

Robert Hooke, Thomas Tompion and the clockwork universe

17 min readSep 6, 2018

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Mechanical Philosophy

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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…

13 min readSep 6, 2018

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The Making of Urban Time

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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…

18 min readSep 6, 2018

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‘Time is The Emperor of All Things’

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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…

1 min readApr 17, 2018

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Leo Hollis

Trust: Data, Cities, Democracy

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

9 min readApr 5, 2018

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Trust: Data, Cities, Democracy

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Leo Hollis

Pandemonium: The Inclusive City

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

10 min readNov 13, 2016

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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…

6 min readOct 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…

5 min readOct 19, 2016

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Why I Walk

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Leo Hollis

Leo Hollis

The author of Inheritance, coming in May 2021, The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London, and Stones of London, and the bestseller, Cities are Good for You.

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