Urban Sprawl And Green Belts

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

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May 16, 2002, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Cities shouldn't loosen their Green Belts

Sunday, May 12, 2002 in The Guardian Unlimited

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