Reading through the government's new white paper on planning reform and looking at the pictures. They show a hideous, unequal and heavily securitised built environment that will soon be even more ubiquitous. Who wants to live in this world?
Guys, let's send a photographer out to find the best best possible example of urban housing in the country. Wait, call off the search, this one has a Tescos!
This deserted bench reminds me of the random benches they used to build on trafficky green spaces in Milton Keynes where I grew up. No one ever, ever sat there - the point was represent rather than actually produce public space.
Love to chain up my bike, and then trudge across 200m of blasted heath towards my deracinated cube.
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