Towns in Britain: Jones the Planner Jenny Joseph Banipal's Editor Samuel Shimon writes:

Banipal's Editor Samuel Shimon writes: "This is Banipal's 40th issue

or had to flee Syria and Iraq and eventually settled in Sweden over the last two decades – from Syria Salim Barakat

This suggests a thought process that intertwines the fate of the individual with the whole

He has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana and is the translator of Ismail Kadare's Three-Arched Bridge

Towns in Britain: Jones the Planner Jenny Joseph Banipal's Editor Samuel Shimon writes:Towns in Britain is an evocation and appreciation of our towns and cities and an evaluation of the changes which have shaped them over the last sixty years. Twenty five places are covered, as diverse as Hackney and Glasgow, Lincoln and Letchworth and Coventry and Swansea. On our journey we look at the architecture, townscape, urban design, housing and planning of great cities and disregarded places, illuminating their characters and qualities, their