[lbo-talk] Let's build!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 2 05:40:56 PDT 2006


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.
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> "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



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