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Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Fw: the regen business...(16)

Also, you have to wait till more of the world is not into 'get-rich-quick-schemes'...
At the moment it is = get a cut/ wadge of cash - buy lots of property abroad - & then you never hear of the developers again.There has to be something different... where the people are not in it for them- selves.- which means a whole new world view shift.

As long as everyone in the world is 'doing-it for-themselves' we only progress along those lines.Capitalism, as it stands, is dated/ out-moded - it doesn't solve many fundamental problems and it doesn't move forward in fundamental ways - it is only out for the Individual/ Corporation.

Capitalism is 'Ancient Times' - it's the Stone Age Times where we are still competing amongst ourselves... We have to wait... wait for the next Big Leap Forward in the timeline of Man.

A


> thanks for these thoughts.
>
>
> >From: "Annie"
> >To:
> >Subject: the regen business...
> >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:37:43 -0000
> >
> >by the regen business... I don't mean Today's regen where it is re-done up
> >and then 2 years later the place still isn't thriving and they do it up again...
> >
> >I mean - wait a while... wait for a leap of faith... wait until a new kind
> >of regen comes along... by some new breed of architectural thinking... It
> >will happen - and then things will be buzzing in your head - ideas and
> >flow...
> >
> >At the moment, I know Birmingham looks 'dead'... but underneath that, the
> >maggots are eating up the rotting flesh - it doesn't look very good - but
> >things are getting better...
> >
> >Or you can adapt... you don't need to do the whole facelift of Brimingham
> >but find pockets and more pockets until these pockets become the
> >neighbourhood... and just see it change... Like in London - Greenwich is
> >still a pocket - but it's sitting/ waiting/ ready for supporting it's
> >neighbourhood... it's the support structure - as a human-being and an
> >architect - you are part of the support structure - if you keep walking
> >away - things might never be - they will not happen...
> >
> >A