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Urban Sprawl And Green Belts

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
16 May 2002 - 1:00pm

Is it time for to relax controls over Britain's green belts?

"The green belts, begun in 1938 in London, were the perfect marriage between socialist planning ideas and the interests and prejudices of the English majority...nstead of the flight from the slums and the inner city to green field suburbia, cities would have to build upwards...The difficulty, even more acute today, lay not in the conception but in the execution. The individualistic English have been astonishingly badly served by their architects, planners and house-builders."

Full Story: Cities shouldn't loosen their Green Belts
Source: The Guardian Unlimited, May 12, 2002
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