When the idea was initially raised, the European Development Fund was ready to put up a multi-million pound incentive to share, for the good of the city.
He's trying to unpick the thing that makes magic work -- and to explain why audiences and conjurors put up with one another, and even seek each other out.
Let local authorities not only provide state-owned land for residential construction, but directly commission house builders (and preferably smaller construction firms) to put up affordable homes on that land.