Future Cities: Shaping Europe from the bottom up

Thames.
London School of Economics (LSE), the green belt is
making life harder for ordinary residents.
He noted that most of the belt, which measures more
than 2,000 hectares, is privately owned and closed
privately owned and closed to the public.
centre is being emptied because ordinary people
BANLIEUE CITY
“It will become a 'banlieue' city like Paris, with tourist
sites at its heart and working class people who have
alongside middle class people.”
He said the Garden bridge was a “perversion” of
utopian visions.
driven up property prices, forcing ordinary people out
and making their lives harder.
The EU estimates that there are 34 million urban
urban areas creates “huge welfare losses”.
“To try to create an urban utopia is a recipe for
throttling the life out of cities,” he said.
“It will be privately owned land with access controlled
normal people,” Beaumont said.
He said that two 19th century books shaped
by Edward Bellamy, an American journalist.
It imagined Boston, in the US, in the year 2000 as
a geometrical, iron-clad, and mechanised structure
that was designed to produce an “industrial army”
only two megacities
and London. Istanbul
and Moscow are also
megacities.
Photo:Lisbeth Kirk
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