The Corporation of London gave us the hated Barbican which blights many a view. They also turned a world famous London Bridge in to a Croydon overpass. Then he approved the ill conceived Walkie Talkie tower. I'm smelling The Emporer's New Clothes here...aren't you?
the title of this video might be quite controversial as I did my research in the city of London that it is one of the smartest cities in the world, while here it says that it's the most unplanned city..
not a contradiction. You need guidelines for city planning and construction. you need infrastructure. but the whole point is that one should avoid trying to plan a city from A to Z
So many dad jokes. Apart from that, v interesting from an urban perspective. People do not make country places though; they wreck them. Too many users of PRoW and National Parks e.g.
I don’t like this guy, he is astonishingly arrogant, and suffering from a form of British exceptionalism. Not funny at all. He sounds like a Brexiteer. And as a fellow Celt I can assure you the Celts were not the first people to arrive in the British Isles.
One of the most human city planners I've heard speak, fantastic stuff!
This is so much fun to listen to. Thanks for the upload! from a Japanese student in Tokyo.
thank u so much for this video, as an urban planning student from indonesia this video really helpful to me
I wish I had lectures like this on my planning course
I could be listen this presentation for a few more hours! Thanks for upload!
Is this a stand-up or a UCL lecture?
Man is unbelievably funny, if you get all the references
exceptional humans beings are usually humble not arrogant... PS: celts were definitely not first inhabitants of today's Britain territory
Largest unplanned city? Larger than Istanbul, Cairo, or Delhi?
I’d like to point out that 4 of London’s large late opening night clubs have closed permanently in the last few years.
A property development company sponsoring UCL urban planning lectures?! I think I sense a conflict of interest... The world has gone mad
The Corporation of London gave us the hated Barbican which blights many a view. They also turned a world famous London Bridge in to a Croydon overpass. Then he approved the ill conceived Walkie Talkie tower.
I'm smelling The Emporer's New Clothes here...aren't you?
the title of this video might be quite controversial as I did my research in the city of London that it is one of the smartest cities in the world, while here it says that it's the most unplanned city..
not a contradiction. You need guidelines for city planning and construction. you need infrastructure. but the whole point is that one should avoid trying to plan a city from A to Z
So many dad jokes. Apart from that, v interesting from an urban perspective. People do not make country places though; they wreck them. Too many users of PRoW and National Parks e.g.
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I don’t like this guy, he is astonishingly arrogant, and suffering from a form of British exceptionalism. Not funny at all. He sounds like a Brexiteer.
And as a fellow Celt I can assure you the Celts were not the first people to arrive in the British Isles.
You sound like a remoaner.
What is wrong with self-determination as a political concept?
No, İstanbul is The World’s Greatest Unplanned City