False choice .@hch_hill, as you know, Oxford’s beauty and serenity depend on the maintenance of its green belt as well as the protection of its existing woodlands and green spaces.Which are you, developer, landlord or PR man? If none of these, where did you spring from?
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Setting aside the deeply tedious insinuation I must have an agenda to disagree with you, the claim is nonsense.
Oxford's beauty and serenity arose before the green belt; the idea that it depends on being frozen in aspic by state planners in 1949 is very strange. Moreover...
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...things do need to change - ideally in the sort of incremental, organic way the green belt makes impossible, but to change nonetheless.
In The Abolition of Britain you simultaneously argue that stern political power be applied to prevent Oxford slowly absorbing surrounding...
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...villages (historically precisely the way we got polycentric, liveable cities with distinct neighbourhoods) and lamented that teachers et al could no longer afford the nice houses in Oxford that were originally built for them.
The line between those two dots is not long.
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I suspect had you lived in Victorian times, your attitude to its marvellous advances would have been Ruskin's at Monsal Dale; had you witnessed the birth of grey steel warships, you would merely have mourned sail.
The museum mindset builds nothing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsal…
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