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Outside, looking in: structure of the European city, Part 2

11 November, 2005 (10:12) | History, Housing tenures, Other, World news |

[Continued from Part 1, posted yesterday]
 
Throughout Europe, up they went —
in Glasgow and London, in Paris and Lyon and Marseille,
in Milan and Brussels and Malmo and everywhere else. 

Council housing and what it replaced, Liverpool
 

Council blocks, Edinburgh
 
Some went up, some went out, but all were off by themselves.
 

Council housing, semi-detached, Liverpool
 
All were built […]

Outside, looking in: structure of the European city Part 1

10 November, 2005 (10:02) | History, Housing tenures, Other, World news |

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards… Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
– Sun Tzu, The […]