Tag: Clement Attlee

‘Streets in the Sky’: Post-war Housing Estates in Britain and France | Stephen Basdeo

“The city of to-day is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. To build in the open would be to replace our present haphazard arrangements, which are all we have to-day, by a uniform layout. Unless we do this there is no salvation. The result of a true geometrical lay-out is repetition. The result of repetition is a standard, the perfect form.”