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Martin Crookston: Where should all the concrete go?
- Posted: 4th May, 2008
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Martin Crookston is an urban economist at London School of Economics and town planner at Glasgow University, and a director of Urban Studio, a team of urban planners, designers and researchers.
He was a member of the UK Government’s Urban Task Force led by Lord Rogers of Riverside. He collaborated with Professor Sir Peter Hall on the major Four World Cities study of London, Paris, New York & Tokyo.
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- Daphne Chaplin said
- 11 April, 2011 at 8:58am
There is a proposal to build 4,200 homes in the area where I live. There is limited infer structure being on the rural side of a seaside town. Only seasonal work for a few. The nearest hospital is 20 miles away. The town is nearly dead now what with an out of town shopping mall, the lanes get congested now going to it. With the amount of arable land which has been farmed for generations now being proposed for these homes, surely it will mean more food being imported, therefore a rising carbon footprint.