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Cross posted with my photoblog "the dissident frogman's London Diving" that contains some photos, without a doubt.Face it: when Paris is considering a preposterous overregulated, constructivist attempt to confabulate one of the most striking characteristic of London, she fails to comprehend the natural - because largely free - process that made London what it is and tries to mimic its results via antagonistic means.
Therefore, this "New Villages" planned out absurdity, like any artificial and coercive attempt to shape social activity according to the views of some out of phase politicians and bureaucrats, will most likely end up being another unmanageable and costly failure under a more or less glossy varnish.
A French specialty, if there was any.
The very unique and harmonious alchemy between centuries old tradition and cutting edge modernity that operates and works in London and can be experienced and seen in many different levels, be it town planning, culture or social and entrepreneurial behaviors, is in no small part what makes this city (or "these cities" actually) the true center of 21st century Europe and is more a consequence of human creativity and genius in a free market environment, than that of collectivist regulation and coercion by an outdated and sweltering centralized State.
I'll leave Paris to its costly, irrational and childish movie-based Socialist utopia and urban phantasms of small countryside villages.
After all, the Return to the land is a long-lived caprice in the French bureaucrats' sterile minds.
My sympathy goes to the commuters and the Parisians victims of the polls who will helplessly see their tax money drown into a social-democrat version of Disneyland, though.
Thanks to Damian for the WP link.
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