txt ex: Skyscrapers won’t turn Croydon into Barcelona
It’s one of the biggest questions of the age: does spending a lot on flashy buildings by international “starchitects” actually deliver regeneration? It delivers something: nice, RIBA award-winning buildings. Maybe a couple of weeks of athletics. Occasionally, a stupendous folly. And a lot of deja vu. [...]
[...] how much money do you really need to spend on architecture to regenerate an area’s fortunes? Isn’t it time we started seeing regeneration as a bottom-up, people-focused process and not a top-down way of spending millions on funky buildings?
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