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Article: Regeneration game; London's public spaces are a mess. Do private developers have the answer?
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2003
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Byline: ROWAN MOORE
CONSIDER Oxford Street, that never-healed wen on the face of London, or Leicester Square, fittingly anointed a year or two back with the vomit of the Prime Minister's son. Contemplate, although you would rather not, their discordant assemblies of railings, signs and ever-stained pavements, and the meretricious bollards and lampposts bequeathed by halfhearted improvement schemes.
Or look at streets anywhere in London, their surfaces scored and butchered by utility companies, and clogged with the endless initiatives of traffic engineers: cycle lanes, speed humps, extra railings, congestion charge signs, proliferating instructions to ...