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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:12:59 +0530
Architexturez-IN wrote:
Delays caused by the planning decision-making process in Britain came
under fire today by leading architect Lord Rogers of Riverside.
To the cheerleaders of urban renewal, the rapid march of glass and steel
monoliths and asymmetric housing blocks across Britain's skyscape
represents a shiny future. For Lord Rogers, one of the world's foremost
architects, they are part of an ill-conceived building boom that is in
danger of creating "the slums of tomorrow".
The 74-year-old peer, whose pioneering buildings range from the Pompidou
Centre in Paris to the Millennium Dome, has issued a blistering attack
on what he considers the slow and "shoddy" progress in the rejuvenation
of towns and cities with estates that would look the same "in Beijing or
Buenos Aires" mushrooming across the country.
cont'd....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/urban-regeneration-may-create-slums-of-future-says-rogers-802340.html