On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:50:10 -0800 (PST)
lonelytraveller wrote:
middle of Zone 1 right next to massively wealthy companies, many of
whose staff choose to live in Barbican because of its proximity -

Exactly , its wealthy residents. There are plenty of iffy estates in tower
hamlets literally a stones throw from liverpool street station. They're not
cesspits but neither are they particularly pleasent.

there simply is barely anywhere else in the city of london to actually
live. Take that away, and it would turn into a cesspit within a
decade.

Well if the welathy residents moved out and the usual scum moved in then
yes , it would go downhill. BUt thats nothing to do with the buildings.

On the other hand, you'd be hard pushed to turn an area full of
Georgian squares, and well laid out and designed housing, into a
disaster zone, no matter who you fill it with.

Oh come off it, there are many areas of london with georgian houses turned into
pile-em-high bedsits and tiny flats. And not all those areas are particularly
pleasent.

Anyway, even a disneyland-style facsimile is an improvement on a
facsimile of corbousier.

Matter of opinion I guess.

B2003