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Prince Charles' Poundbury Resonates With Developers

Posted by: Mike Lydon

2 February 2007 - 7:00am

With its traditional design and mixture of uses, Poundbury -- the experimental development created by Prince Charles -- is fast becoming the model for development in Britain.

"When Prince Charles launched his experimental development at Poundbury in Dorset in the 1990s, Britain’s big housebuilders showed little interest in his quaint notions about old-fashioned architecture and cosy communities: not one of them bothered to tender for the contracts to turn the prince’s ideas into reality."

"A decade on, such ideas are no longer wacky but mainstream: these days we are all green, and sustainability has become every builder’s favourite word. Suddenly, the construction industry and the prince are on the same wavelength."

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Source: The Times, January 28, 2007
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Leon Krier's Poundbury

Submitted by Charles Siegel on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 09:55.

I don't want to minimize the contribution of Prince Charles, whom I admire greatly, but I think the article should also have given credit to Leon Kreir, the architect/planner of Poundbury.

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