The functionalist fallacy has done and is doing brutal damage to the joy, beauty and liveability of our cities and to the public's acceptance of growth and development. Don't believe the 'design is subjective' nonsense. It's not. What people like is highly predictable & is ...
The new build estates on the outskirts of Cambridge are truly shocking. Is it any wonder that people there hate the thought of expanding the city when this is what they can expect will be built?
Both completed in the early 2000s, phase one of Poundbury and the Scottish Parliament. Have a guess which one the @guardian described as "fake, heartless, authoritarian and grimly cute / sterile and suffocating" and which they described as "a masterpiece in the making".