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Flats behind Vauxhall Cross: looking rather 90s
STOP PRESS: Some parts of Greenwich Park will be "preserved by record" –
it means "destroyed"! (Thanks, Nick)
regeneration is the new "development". It doesn't mean restoration, it means knocking down nice stuff and building crap stuff, as usual.
Pathfinder = slum clearance (@HughPearman)
what we need in our streets = gentrification, obviously @owenhatherley commenting on the Stirling Prize for architecture
boutique not just a small shop, but one
that isn’t a franchise, isn’t part of a chain, and sells exclusive clothing
lines (exclusive = a bit
harder to find and more expensive than the high street, and not made in such
large numbers). If exclusion is a bad thing, why is exclusive a good thing?
buildings of character/character
dwellings old
centre shop
develop a site build something on it
development housing estate (Agatha Christie)
en suite with your
own bathroom and toilet. (All accommodation is en suite.)
enclave gated community or resort for the super-rich “So
monied are residents of the enclave… ” Times November 20, 2007
holiday home static caravan
In keeping Must have originally meant "in keeping with what's there already", but it has become a general hooray word.
landscape (v) clear everything except a bit round the edges, and lay
a lawn or paving
landscaped grounds one really vast lawn
park home chalet
Pathfinder initiative nefarious plot to bulldoze perfectly good
houses, which nobody seems able to stop. "Slum clearance." @HughPearman
planning gain we build nine-storey modern apartments, you get a
supermarket/museum
regeneration destruction and rebuilding (“Regeneration” ought to
mean rejuvenation of what’s already there. Though some buildings really ought to be
flattened.)
residential privately owned houses
social housing public housing
tired
décor dirty and scuffed
tranquil estate agent speak for surrounded
by trees
urban
regeneration taking a shabby
street and replacing grocers, caffs and shoe shops with coffee bars and
restaurants. Middle class people only go to ordinary
streets to go to bars and restaurants; they do all their shopping in
supermarkets or high streets full of chain stores. Also means bulldozing terraces and building steel-and-glass lofts, replacing corner
shops with arts centres etc etc
Urban Regeneration Agency see Pathfinder
vernacular in architecture, vaguely cottagey, with tiny
oddly-placed windows, pitched roofs and a token red-brick stripe or two.
We can’t stand in the
way of progress We simply MUST knock down this beautiful old building and put
up this architect designed monstrosity (because it’s jobs for the boys and
we’re all taking a cut).
what we need in our streets Gentrification, obviously. @owenhatherley commenting on the Stirling Prize for architecture
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