Joxley Reads 18.08.24

My picks from around the web this week

A couple of substacks caught my eye this week. The first was from the routinely excellent Works in Progress, with Samuel Watling looking at the history of New Towns. The idea is again back in vogue, with Labour looking at building more new towns to solve the housing crisis. As Samuel points out, however, many of the iterations of the past have proven to be failures. The…