{"id":39995,"date":"2017-01-09T02:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-design-for-city-living-went-wrong-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T02:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T19:50:41","slug":"how-a-design-for-city-living-went-wrong-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-design-for-city-living-went-wrong-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"How a design for city living went wrong | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRe your article (We need spaces to live but we also need places to make things, 7 January): twenty years ago Richard Rogers\u2019 Towards an Urban Renaissance put sustainability at the core of a vision of compact cities where people worked, rested and played with minimum car use. Residential densification of central London and other large English cities would be delivered through regeneration and\u00a0the judicious imposition of tall buildings. The result was a tall building frenzy driven by international capital, with many central London flats used as vacant safety deposit boxes. Meanwhile, a new population was sucked in to join Londoners who no longer wished to leave the thriving capital, and the housing crisis deepened.In desperation, successive mayors have identified over 40 \u201copportunity areas\u201d for intensive housebuilding, involving a land grab of thousands of hectares. Unfortunately these are all key industrial areas where the nuts and bolts of the city are manufactured and many thousands of Londoners employed. For example, one company in the Vauxhall \u201copportunity area\u201d \u2013 employing 100 \u201clow skill\u201d workers who live close by and work through the night\u00a0preparing\u00a0raw fish to supply\u00a0many West End restaurants \u2013 is threatened with yet another tall speculative residential building. In the name of sustainability, we are building a city where ordinary people have nowhere to\u00a0live and nowhere to work.Michael BallReclaim London Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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