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Arthur Figgis · February 5th 10, 09:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 05/02/2010 01:09, wrote:
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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.

Well, bits of Disney are copied from Germany to start with

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.

The very middle of Warsaw has been rebuilt "as it was" - they were
putting the finishing touches to some medieval walls when I went 3-4
years ago - but only the very middle.

Ieper seemed a bit odd as all the post-WWI "old" buildings were
weathered to the same extent.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK