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I have been reading a lot lately about how many city planers all over Europe (in every case toffs, Lords, millionaires...) destroyed established traditional urban communities in city cetres and moved them to either high rise towers in the city centre, or banished to distant suburbs with no amenities/public transport our even shops. I am starting to think this was a strategic move by the elite...

sounds plausable enough. communitys don't exist within tower blocks people are afraid of each other. and theres always a drilling sound coming from somewhere at 8.30am on a sunday morning. always. the thing you said about heroin being introduced to the poor brits and irish in the 80's sounds right too, like crack was introduced into the black ghettos. drugs are a sedative and if they're ...

Quote: Originally Posted by pandamania I have been reading a lot lately about how many city planers all over Europe (in every case toffs, Lords, millionaires...) destroyed established traditional urban communities in city cetres and moved them to either high rise towers in the city centre, or banished to distant suburbs with no ...

Quote: Originally Posted by pandamania I have been reading a lot lately about how many city planers all over Europe (in every case toffs, Lords, millionaires...) destroyed established traditional urban communities in city cetres and moved them to either high rise towers in the city centre, or banished to distant suburbs with no ...

Very good points, have never thought of it that way, but due to your points, it made me think this could be why they are knocking down all the pubs to build more flats, so there is nowhere to go and meet socially and discuss the problems we all face, other than town centres where you have to stand up all night and cant communicate due to the really loud music in these pubs. Has anyone else ...

Quote: Originally Posted by truthseeker1980 Very good points, have never thought of it that way, but due to your points, it made me think this could be why they are knocking down all the pubs to build more flats, In Ireland the pubs remain, but what they have become is some kind of SKySports Delivery System. Every ...

Great thread pandamania. I am always talking to people (including my other half) and mentioning that the breakdown of our communities are to blame for all the anti-social problems and I explain how they are closing down our pubs which in the past were used to meet up and chat to put the world to rights. TV programs (especially from the US) from the 70s and 80s and right up to the present ...

Quote: Originally Posted by steevo TV programs (especially from the US) from the 70s and 80s and right up to the present day (eg the TV program "Friends") always were glamourising high rise apartments and it worked on me SORT OF in that I sort of thought of apartments as glamourous but I could never understand WHY people liked them and...

Also shouldn't Semi-Detached be really called "Complete Attached to the Side of Another House"?

"I am starting to think this was a strategic move by the elite." It certainly was. They are long term planners. Cities are designed to be what exactly? That's the question that would concern me now, at this time. They have ensured most people live in completely unnatural environments, from houses, shops, schools, to work locations and conditions. Another prime example of 'incrementalism...