We, so long as we are doing the punching, its all good!
They remain part of the narrative, though, and on social media platforms, it's impossible to move on from that - it's Groundhog Day every day Repeating that all you have to do is walk or cycle instead is just as bad We need to recognise that our public realms are mostly hostile places for people
I've just read them all. It's not that bad and all legitimate points in a discussion We are currently writing a chapter on loneliness (and isolation) where we are finding that the quality of routes to public transport and general streetscapes are not conducive to walking
Or completed it yet!
Ah, it was... I was working on (around) it when it was just a plain new town!
That famouse Britsh breed from Japan that is really heavy on the saturated fat and CO2 miles The most British bit about this is the taking of a world class ingrdient, calling it luxury so you can charge like a bull, then mushing it up into a burger before giving it to a clown to cook on a fire
Was it not a new town with the government before that?!
Janet clearly isn't worldly wise enough to know about sociopaths yet then!
Thats a point I have made often... that landscapes often endure long after the buildings that brough about their commission have gone But lets be clear that these landscape were primarily there to screen and reduce visual impact, not to be things of purposeful beauty - I've worked on a few!
The best debators seldom have the best arguments... its why we shoulkdn't take the coached public school debators very seriously... they really have no experience of the world, nor selfless vision of its future Its why Tories are marked down at university in anonomised tests!