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"[...]Vibrant, driver (meaning catalyst), sustainable, multicultural, challenge, iconic, diversity, holistic, tipping point, knowledge economy, street life, world city: every page is strewn with these comforting locutions which demonstrate their authors' obeisance to today's shibboleths. Urbanism shares the properties of a cult. No matter which particular physical or ideological remedy it happens to be peddling, it is always with the faith that this remedy will succeed where the last one failed [...] Such optimism is not so much touching as moronic. The real beneficiaries of the new cityscape of synthetic-modern "affordable" apartments, gesticulatory buildings, landmark bridges and lumps of "accessible" public sculpture are merely the begetters of such stuff (usually Libeskind, Calatrava, Foster, and so on) and the bodies that commission them, self-congratulatory regional development agencies that just adore "regeneration" because its effects are wholly unmeasurable."
- Jonathan Meades reviewing "The Endless City", a collection of writing on urbanism.
,horse
Caine says:
:D Just trying to let everyone know they could be doing something useful, like petting me, feeding me or riding me.
He kept this up pretty much the whole time we were talking. I have few usable shots because I was laughing too hard to hold the camera straight.
crickson says:
It is clear this horse is so sick it has to lean on that person to stay upright. It's very sad, but when I saw it laying down I knew it could mean only one thing.
Look, if a 16 hand horse leans on a five foot woman to hold itself upright, the result is that both woman & horse fall over. No one fell, he is not leaning.
crickson says:
Not yet, but what happened a split second after the photo was taken? Eh?
Erm, well, I suppose the best way to put it is that he goosed her.