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Great read, thanks for posting.
The thing that gets me most is that cities like Paris, NYC, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid still feel more like cities. As in, the fact there's people popping outside to pick up milk rather than some c*unt with a clipboard blocking off the road for a whatever reason. The parts of London that I love are now largely office or retail space. -
I think people are surprised by how many people do live in central London. Look up from places like Covent Garden and there are loads of flats, many of them LA/ex-LA ones.
My girlfriend was born and bred in Central London, she's still there and many of her mates and family are still in the same area as well but it's not so obvious until you're exposed to it.
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Good article that. This bit resonated with me:
... residents “... experience their own urban location as if tourists, emphasizing aesthetic concerns.” Schools, ... and neighborhood associations no longer form the city’s foundation. Instead, the city revolves around recreation, arts, culture, and restaurants
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A lot of the complaints aren't unique to London. This is one of the numerous articles on the phenomenon of livable cities.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/childless-city-13577.html
I do like London but, as a furriner, the really interesting bits in the centre of town are no longer lived in. They are now ghost towns of mega luxury, unoccupied properties that are money laundering exercises for unbelievably dodgy government officials from the former soviet republics. It's killing the place.