Chapter Eleven Lessons of the Past for My Architectural Practice
SIMON HUDSPITH
There is something very concerning about the recent race for numbers. It seems that whoever you speak to – whether a local councillor concerned about the lack of affordable housing, a planner wondering how on earth we are going to meet the housing targets, or a commercial ‘house builder’ thinking site value, speed and profit – the conversations eventually sound the same: ‘How many and how quickly?’ What is more alarming is the way in which this mantra has become part of a collective subconscious, distorting our judgments and our decisions about how we should live. Throughout London and the south-east the results of this attitude, while initially manifest as quotas ...
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