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About Edward Denison

Edward Denison is an independent writer and photographer, and teaches at The Bartlett, UCL. His books include Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City (2003), Modernism in China – Architectural Visions and Revolutions (2008) and McMorran & Whitby (2009). His website is here

Articles by Edward Denison

Friday 10th December

Baby Boom to Moral Bust: How Britain's youth will suffer most from the cuts

Edward Denison, 10 December 2010

Local councils will be deciding how to cope with debilitating cuts to their budgets in the coming weeks. Out of all those affected, it is young people, infants and the unborn who will suffer most from the accumulative impact of the cuts.

Tuesday 21st April

The architectural photographer as terrorist

Edward Denison, 21 April 2009

A professional outing in west London becomes an exercise in the new civic fear

Thursday 9th August

Restoring history in China

Edward Denison, 9 August 2007

Forty-one years after the cultural revolution began, China's heritage faces another potent threat (archive)

Thursday 12th April

The Horn of Africa: a bitter anniversary

Edward Denison, 12 April 2007

Five years after international arbitration over the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, the world remains dangerously indifferent to the still-unresolved issue, says Edward Denison.

Monday 5th March

Ethiopia's hostages to history

Edward Denison, 5 March 2007

The seizure of British diplomats near the unforgiving Ethiopia-Eritrea border has a bloody precedent, says Edward Denison.

Wednesday 20th December

Eritrea: a cheap holiday in other people's misery

Edward Denison, 20 December 2006

Edward Denison, author of "Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City", reports on the architecture and politics of a nation on its knees.

"London good. Asmara bad." In four terse words, Semret had summed up the distilled histories of two disparate capital cities in unwittingly Orwellian tones. Few people have heard of Asmara. Indeed many have not heard of the country of which it is the capital city - Eritrea.

Wednesday 18th January