Ricard Rogers, architect, condemns the building on green field sites. He writes: There may be challenges to delivering brownfield development, but a shortage of sites is not one of them. England has more than 66,000 hectares of brownfield land, more than any other industrial nation, and this increases every year. It is true that some sites are less easy to build on than the blank canvas of green fields, but architects, planners and developers need to show ingenuity in rising to this challenge rather than shrugging their shoulders. Why tolerate the huge environmental and social cost of greenfield development when clever adaptation of our urban centres can immediately link to existing infrastructure? from standard.co.uk/comment/comment/richard-rogers-we-need-a-new-plan-to-build-an-even-greater-city-8499562.html
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:49:10 +0000
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