I did a Samizdata posting today about the architect Patrik Schumacher, and his opinion that cities ought to be more created by market choices, and less by planning, than is customary today.
So, London. Is it planned, or did it just happen?:
That looks like a fairly happening sort of place, to my eye.
I love those little splashes of colour, in the middle. Thank you Renzo Piano. Here’s a photo, of (someone else’s photo of) Renzo Piano, which I took way back in 2007:
I wouldn’t trust just any architect, merely because any architect is an architect. But I would trust Renzo Piano. The above colourful offices. The Shard.
Shame they didn’t allow this. A case of planning meaning preventing. Which is mostly what it does mean, I suspect.