Archive for November, 2012
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OC 53: Stag Place Revisited
 Urban transformation: for better or for worse: – then? In the early nineteen seventies, I asked my post graduate students to explore two areas of central London of equal size, and observe their fabrics and how they were used to identify what interventions they could propose as aspiring urbanists to improve them. One area was […]
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OC 52: London World City: Sustainable Growth?
Open to the world or open to all its citizens? Despite double dip recession, or perhaps because of it, the development industry is lobbying hard to obtain government assistance – read tax payers’ money – to continue expanding macro-infrastructure, however much contested by many ordinary citizens. Conventional wisdom points out that London is living on […]