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Prince Charles says stop sprawl, y'all

From the forward to the annual review of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment: 

I feel immense frustration at the slow pace of change in the face of the increasingly urgent need for more sensitive and responsive human environments," Prince Charles wrote.

"The task is made all the harder by the short-term thinking that still predominates in so many spheres of life: a perspective which threatens at a fundamental level our ability to avert catastrophic climate change…

"Expressed in terms of the built environment, within the UK, the emphasis of my foundation remains on maintaining the drive towards dense, mixed-use, walkable development in preference to suburban sprawl, as well as the evolution of residential design to show that 'eco-homes' can be as attractive and courteous to their surrounds as the most desirable traditional dwellings."

 

Posted on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 11:23AM by Registered CommenterBurke Sisco | CommentsPost a Comment

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