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[email protected] · February 5th 10, 01:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(lonelytraveller) wrote:
On 4 Feb, 13:42, wrote:

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.

I can think of counterexamples to that. Liverpool had some.

Anyway , you can't bring a bombed out area back. The best you'll get
is a disneyland style fascimile of it.

Which is largely what the Germans have done of course. They seem to like
it.

Try telling that to the people of Warsaw or Novgorod, entire cities
which were heavily bombed out - Novgorod in fact was systematically
destroyed - yet brought back as a near total facsimile of their
previous selves.

Warsaw is dreadful! It may be getting better recently but was far worse
than the East End when I was there in 2002. You must be being rather
selective or referring to work done since 2002.

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Colin Rosenstiel