You are reading a single comment by @cornelius_blackfoot and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@cornelius_blackfoot
hey texas, I understand that London has been planned, and has changed and morphed through different ideas and theories, but its on top of what is already there, as time passes, and in this case, london grew different ideas were put into action on over and around the initial ramshackle collection of villages, and connections between them.
If you start a city from scratch, this aggregation doesn't occur, because your trying to design it in from the outset, which means that clash of ideas and differences in philosphies doesn't occur, which makes most planned cities/towns, canberra, brasilia, milton keynes* seem soulless.
does that make sense?
*should be noted that I have been to none of these places, this description is based on supposition, television documentaries and some brief reading...