2012-08-11
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quote 20:45:53
“ Democracy has a pretty poor track record of building great cities. The great cities of the world that we travel to see were built by benevolent despots ”
Eric Kuhne, head designer at the multinational firm CivicArts, and architect of Bluewater, quoted by Owen Hatherley in his Guardian article, Bluewater thrives by not alarming shoppers with anything new or strange. I’d argue London and New York disprove that one.
