Re: Let’s build!
On Oct 1, 2006, at 3:53 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
Me in today’s Sunday Times:”Experts from Kingston University’s
Centre for Suburban Studies were dreaming of dotting the
countryside with houses, creating sprawling megacities and ushering
in an era of cheap homes for all.“We will have a city 100 miles in diameter taking in Cambridge and
Windsor and Brighton,” declared James Heartfield, author of Let’s
Build!, a book launched at the conference that advocates ending the
division between town and country and the building of 5m homes in
the next decade.
Wow, James, have you spent much time touring the U.S. landscape, what
Kunstler calls the geography of nowhere? It’s soul-destroyingly hideous.
Doug