URBANO wrote:Fantastic.
Have you considered that the relative quality of buildings here compared to "poorer countries" (as you put it) might be due to relative wealth ?
And just look at those "Absolute fuckery " places before the statutory planning regime came in....Edinburgh, Bath, Oxford, Georgian Victorian and Edwardian London, etc etc.....all significantly worse than those built after.
Yes, of course, its to do with wealth - all being before the 1947 Town and Country Act. Cardiff has never had the wealth of those cities before the subsequent planning bill was passed, and shouldn't be compared with them historically.
I was merely stating 'Absolute fuckery' when it came to the inner city slums of industrial cities of Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds etc.
Cardiff is one of those Industrial cities, and subsequently, many houses of the inner city were, and some still are - terraced, small, back-to-back 4x4m housing. Many of these houses were cleared, but terrible quality and rushed council houses were built in their place - which did nothing but to relocate the socio-economic problems..
That's what I meant about 'Absolute fuckery'. Edit: When I said poorer countries I meant those of the LEDC's or poorer MEDC's of course.