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Thanks to Rob over at No. 2 Self
[http://no2self.net/2008/05/19/john-madin-architect/], we can enjoy a remarkable
TV programme,
Gordon Brown's "legacy" project of building 10 eco-towns in the South East of
England is an endeavour of specious rhetoric, of mobilised Nimbyism, and
unfettered hyperbole.
There seems to
Over at sister blog SuperSpatial [http://superspatial.blogspot.com], you'll find
a calvacade of inanity, including:
016. Reimagining Robin Hood Gardens
[http://www.superspatial.com/2008/07/016-reimagining-robin-hood-gardens.html]
> Robin
(images by Flickr user moreikura [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikura/])
Robin Hood Gardens, like Euston Arch before it, will take its secret to its
grave.
Last week, 'architecture minister' Margaret
As further evidence of my loosely constructed theory that Hertfordshire is
England's own Inland Empire, a liminal interzone with a dark Lynchian
underbelly, we learn that drug gangs are moving out