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John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. Tweet John @johnstreetdales

Suitable topics for this month’s episode have been virtually elbowing each other as they beat a metaphorical path to my figurative door. Several have enough in common to encourage me to believe that I can do them reasonable justice within a single piece; so let’s see, shall we? As for my title, I toyed with those of three 1979/80 synth-pop classics: but Gary Numan’s Cars and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s Electricity ultimately lost out to John Foxx’s...

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