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Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc
Why is it that every time you look at a map of a British city, it looks like a wad of hair you've pulled out of the drain? Is there a record somewhere of how many people were imprisoned and tortured at the Tower of London for attempting to plan an urban area?
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St James' has a grid plan. The architect slept with the authorities one by one to get it.
South Kensington too, by royal decree and a German prince with fancy ideas about straight roads and whatnot
the squares of Bloomsbury (at right), where the writers and intellectuals glided about
Fitzrovia where despite the density it's an empty blackspot on the map, where the rich go to get bored
And of course Canary Wharf, a Canadian implant
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The rest is a dog's dinner, of giant hairballs
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