Editor's letter

This issue began with an argument about lifts. Someone at the desk insisted the most radical thing a building could do now is make you take the stairs, and slow you down, and put you back in your own body. We did not settle it, but we went out to look. What we found, again and again, was people fighting quietly for the unhurried city: the darkroom that will not go digital, the lot turned garden, the museum that turns the lights off so you finally see the work. None of them are loud. All of them are winning.

Rowan Ash, Editor