American Reacts King Charles Built A Town And It Surprised EVERYONE
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I had my reservations about Prince Charles's crusade against architects, but I have to admit that my experience of architects is that they are a very arrogant lot. Possibly only royalty could have successfully opposed them.
King Charles seems to have one major natural gift, possibly the result of years of royal and aristocratic descent. He seems to have a knack of choosing the right people to carry things out, and then lets them get on with it. So his ventures have generally been successful. The Prince's Trust, which enables people from deprived backgrounds to start businesses, and Duchy Originals, which markets food from his estates, have both worked.
And of course he was also laughed for his concern for the environment. They're not laughing so much now.
You can take potshots at him. He still takes polluting flights all over the place, but that may be because of security considerations. And the Duchy of Cornwall has many financial benefits, notably receiving the estates of people in Cornwall if they die without a will and no heirs can be found.
But all in all, in spite of my left-wing politics I have a lot of time for him.
Except with the example of a certain J Saville.
The environmental extremism, pushing the global warming SCAM ("climate change") is an assault on humanity. These people don't care about the environment or actual pollution. It's about power and subjugation. As Americans, we find it hateful.
That said, King Charles was spot on with this little suburb. It's pleasant, though there should be more trees and yards (gardens) It's walkable and livable. Even if you leave for work, once you get home, you have everything you need.
RF and British Govt. airplanes run on biofuel now..
I'm am architect and I detest architects
I had an office in Poundbury for nearly 10 years. Nice place to work and live however, nobody else would've got permission to build on 1,000 acres of prime farm land. Poundbury works for second-homers and wealthy weekenders from London but not so much for the locals.
Of the new towns built since 1950, Poundbury has one of the most mixed-use neighbourhoods in the UK. With about 4100 residents, 3000 people are employed by businesses in the town. About one in five households have no car. The town is built entirely within Duchy of Cornwall land, which form the Prince of Wales's largest estate, and inside the Dorchester by-pass, so was not viewed as arable land for planning purposes.
TRUE, at least at Les Plessis Robinson they actually got lots of lower income families living in social housing.
Also, Poundbury is very CAR CENTRIC. Getting in and out of the town is difficult without car. The locals like it that way cause it prevents outsiders from roaming the town.
Charles has worked wonders at Dumfries House in Ayrshire which he saved and opened to the public. We now have a 2,000 acre park with arboretum and gardens on our doorstep with free entry and parking in what was a very depressed ex mining area. Training in building restoration skills and catering is being given in a high unemployment area. However the attached area of Poundbury type housing ( called Knockroon) hasn't worked and has stalled.
I have visited Poundbury on a couple of occasions, as I used to have friends living there. Indeed, I have stayed within the house that was once set aside for the Prince of Wales (Charles) himself, which by that time had been gifted to The Salvation Army, as used as the home oif the Officers based at nearby Dorchester Corps. I liked it there - it is a million times better than than the post-war 'New Town' that I grew up within. Also, have a look into the restoration of Dumfries House in East Ayrshire - and its knock-on effect in the nearby town of Auchinleck: this was also the work of the then Prince of Wales. And, if you can find it, his planned gardens at Highgrove House... Charles is after all, one the best educated kings that we've ever had. His cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, is also qualified as a Chartered Architect, so perhaps he lent a hand...?
Btw, Connor, I find London pretty architecturally interesting, but then I never go east of King's Cross, except to go to my opticians in St Paul's.
London is officially a forest as it has so many trees. What I would miss in Paris is the parks - their parks are so formal and geometrical (Luxembourg Gardens, Tuileries). There is no conparison with Hyde Park, Regent's Park Green Park, Kensington Gardens, St James's Park. I know Paris has the Bois de Boulogne, but London has large Commons in the suburbs, and Richmond Park.
The buildings shown on you tube don't always reflect the true picture. There are lots of concrete jungles in Europe. The poorer areas are not going to be shown. I lived in a Scottish city that demolished lots of beautiful buildings and put up concrete high rises. The city was destroyed and hasn't recovered. The housing was poor quality. people were isolated and communities shattered.
They generally do a better job on the mainland of preserving their historic centres. Warsaw and Frankfurt have even recently restored their historic centres that were destroyed in the war. London had, until 1901, a beautiful Elizabethan street called "Wych street", survived the great fire of London but not the developers. Makes me feel sad looking at photos of it and realising it's gone forever.
I agree, greenery and trees are very important.
As Prince of Wales, Charles was both way ahead of his time as a campaigner on environmental issues, and a keen advocate of traditional building methods and human-friendly architecture. I visited a acquaintance who lived at Poundbury and was greatly impressed by its focus on pedestrian and cycle-friendly atmosphere.
The roads can be cobbled at a later stage, when there's a bit more money. Although, I believe the King - when he was Prince Charles - has already planned/started building a second town. Cornwall depends, to a large extent, on seasonal employment (it's coastline is beautiful) and a spin-off of building Poundbury was to encourage new jobs to the area. The 35% mix of social housing is not an experiment here in the UK. I know from your earlier reactions that you are a little sceptical about a social 'mix'.
The whole history of England - and maybe the UK - is that its aristocracy/gentry have always had Estates in the Counties. The Lord would, of course, have a very grand home, but only the first son inherited. A second son was usually sent to fight in the military and a third was often 'for the church'. So their homes - as they usually had to find income for themselves, were a little smaller - called manor houses. Professional people had homes perhaps smaller still. The Lord would need workers for his Estate so he would build homes for tenant farmers and cottages on his land for his and his tenants farmers' workers. He would often build a village near his Estate which would consist of housing, but would have a 'high' road that would have shops/offices/an Inn (or two) a blacksmith and so on. He would also need staff to work in his grand house, as would every other 'significant' home so people 'from the village' would have another source of employment.
So you see, when you looked at videos, of the English countryside and said 'it's almost as if it has been built at the same time; it all seems to match and 'fit' together. Well, in many cases it has. Even if it was expanded over the centuries, the 'Lord' would've followed the style of the previous buildings on the Estate especially as his builders were experienced in that type of build. So everyone - from the highest lord to the lowest peasant - lived, literally, cheek by jowl with one another. They would also be in constant contact with one another and, on various occasions, all attend local events and celebrations. This system works for us and is what built the accepted and cohesive layers of our Nation.
What an interesting intelligent and thought provoking comment ! Bravo 🤔👏
It's not merely the design or look of the modern blocks of flats which sprung up in many cities in the 1960's & 1970's which a problem. They replaced houses which were bulldozed and existing communities were lost. People were then living in high rise buildings which led to feelings of isolation. In Manchester many new developments were made from concrete, and soon looked dilapidated. They in turn were demolished many years ago and replaced with houses and low rise flats made of brick, which vastly improved the look of the area.
When I walk through the streets of London I wonder what London would look like if the Blitz had never happened, destroying so much bricks and mortar which was London’s history. What goads me when I see so many new builds nowadays, houses being built. Developers are obsessed with cutting costs so they can build them as quickly as possible with smaller windows, smaller rooms and shitty sound proofing which isn’t such a problem for a detached house, unless it’s a mid terrace or end terrace house. These kind of new builds look like Lego houses which cannot be compared to Victorian or Georgian houses. We have the means in Britain to build high quality homes at affordable prices but the greed has to stop, and we need to find ways of reducing the cost of materials and fuel, as well as making the U.K. energy independent with innovations like Rolls Royce SMR’s so our builders can build decent homes everybody likes.
He is using a lot of pictures from Birmingham to prove his point… I can’t argue with him 😢
At about 3.47/50 is the 'Old Post Office' Victorian pub in Liverpool. Although I live in London, whenever I go up to the Wirral (where I come from), and if visiting Liverpool, I will go in there for a pint and something to eat! They do home-made cooking, nothing too fancy, but great for the price. Been visiting it for over 40 years. 😂 👍
Use the syntax 3:47 and you'll automatically get a link. 🙂
Fab you're reviewing this, I think I recommended this a while ago. Loved your reaction to the modern ( well 1970's) Flats. In the UK we have mainly houses, not flats and our towns and villages have properties that can be hundreds of years old, so mixing in new stuff looks terrible to us. We're cultural snobs and love our history. The King hated modern housing estates and what we call Concrete Jungles.
Aesthetics is a language beyond words!
Nature allows it to ground you to the earth! The fact that Greens as a colour affects your psyche, with the ability to relax and calm you!
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Great video and great reaction, ty Conor.
Seen Ponudbury a great many times when on my way to visit Dorchester museum and Maiden Castle.
Dorchester has a lot of Roman history there too. Another cracking town to visit.
I have been an admirer of King Charles for many many years. He was always forward thinking about many thhings such as Ecology, architechture, and he was outspoken about these things, much to the horror of people who were more about money than the world. Town councils build cheap soulless homes which often don't last long. The council where I live decreed that people in the council owned homes must not feed birds, because "they make mess". Also they famously tend to cut down trees. Old cities tend to have historical buildings which were beautiful and interesting, but most new towns lack any beauty or artistry. I think the then Prince Charles had great visions and new how to achieve them. He was mocked for so many years for saying the things that now we are all talking about. Sad, isn't it.
If Christopher Wren had had his way, London would have been more like Paris, but he was outnumbered by speculative builders when London was being rebuilt after the Great Fire. Baron Hausmann was able to redesign Paris as he wished.
Also, the Ciity of London was flattened by the Luftwaffe.
King Charles isn't the King of England. The office of King of England died 300 ish years ago. I think the King is "His Majesty " rather than His Royal Highness.
I completely agree about Paris. I absolutely love it. Luckily there are 2 apartments always available for my son and I which cost us nothing (family friend). There's something about the atmosphere that we love. Also I love where I used to live in Germany, a town called Birkenfeld. Gorgeous with lovely people. Then back to live in Oxford for 5 years and now back home to Dorset and the Jurassic Coast. I really do appreciate how lucky I've been in the places I've lived. Poundbury is also just a few miles down the road from me. I hope you have a good Easter weekend. Don't eat too much chocolate eggs. (Actually I don't know if that is even a thing in US).✌
Hi connor , I hate those tower blocks ugly looking but I guess after the war builds had to be done cheaper and quickly , the victorian era now they got it right beauty in buids were very important . Great video 😊
Baron Haussmann was commissioned by Napolean III to remodel Paris. The work was executed between 1853 and 1870.
The issue I have with pounbury is the laundry lists of covenants on the properties. If you live there, it's never really your home to do with as you need. Further are the exploitive rates for this that and the other. There is a reason why people in the USA hate HOAs, and we don't want to see that kind of thing in my country.
Paris looks the way it does, because it was literally rebuilt and layed out in the 1800's, with the old medeival city being torn down (photographs exist of that).
Also, Charles dislikes skyscrapers in London, the posh git..he said they should be concentrated in one place only, like Canary wharf.
I think you shoul like this, Connor: "Top 10 Journey Through Time The Most beautiful cities" - GlamGlobe
On the subject you're reacting on, King Charles has always been an expert on, and ardent defender of our Planet!
I was in the butchers in Poundbury this afternoon (I live nearby), and the place never fails to make me say ‘what the fuck’. The centre of it looks like a city centre dumped in the countryside with huge buildings massively out of place. The surrounding suburbs are a little more pleasant though it’s a free for all as there are no signs or road markings.
It happens to built in an area where an awful lot of the local population can’t afford to buy there own home because the housing market is inflated due to buyers from elsewhere paying over the odds and it does nothing to remedy this. The houses are expensive which is what the largely retired residents like as it keeps the riffraff out. It’s designed by people who have no connection with the reality of a struggling rural community. What they consider affordable is way out of the league of most working class people.
Having bitched and moaned about it, it could be a lot worse. A lot worse.
Napolian was responsible for the design of Paris, with its wide avenues etc.
Really love you sharing your views and thinking on this one. You make some great points and would love to hear more of your opinions and experiences in future videos.
Paris’s look is mostly attributed to Haussman. And part of the reasons it’s like that is so the army/police could charge down the street and people couldn’t build barricades as easily. I like it too tho. I mean, it also has its share of trash and ugly buildings but I’m a fan of architecture so… and yeah the trees do a lot.
Also, without having been there, i think NY is a special case in the US. It’s one of the most important and oldest cities in the country and it’s geographical location makes it so every thing has to be more or less packed together, where the typical US town has all the space it needs to expand and fit more parking lots in stupid places.
You are looking at something old and thinking it is part of the new town. I have been there. It is beautiful. A lot of it looks Georgian.
Paris is overrated.
As Prince of Wales, Charlie had quite a big bee in his bonnet about "Modern Architecture", most of which he summarised as "all glass, stumps and carbuncles". Well, sometimes he was wrong but more often, he was right. Even allowing for his occasional confusion of good period architecture with hideous, twee repro.
In the end, however, it's fairer to say no architecture is bad just because it's modern. Merely that some happens to be both and like a lot of older buildings that in their day were also "excrescences" (another Charlie-ism), probably won't last very long. The obvious implication being that often we misjudge by comparing fine old architecture that's consequently all that survived anyway from the period it represents, with ALL recent architecture. A far greater % of which ranges from the jerry-built to the tediously pretentious, purely because the next but one generation of its locale's inhabitants have not yet arrived to demolish it.
"What makes this unappealing" Answer is it looks like Doncaster.
Take a look at Vienna or Budapest.
Charles hasn’t built fuck all in his life.
Oops! Before the video goes any further. My pedantic nature insists I correct the narrator.
The Monarch is NOT "His Royal Highness, King Charles III".
His correct title is "His MAJESTY King Charles III".
He used to be "His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales.
Nor is he' King of England'
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It's a Utopia that is fixed in time: the past. There is no room their for evolution or change.
It says everything about the past, and completely rejects the future.
I used to drive through there regularly, you are right to compare it to a movie set, to me it just seems a bit off and unnatural. It does look nice but there's just a fakeness about it, i wouldn't turn down a house there, but i wouldn't seek one out either...even if i had that sort of cash!
I love blossom trees
2:25 His Majesty, not His Royal Highness. Zijne Majesteit in Dutch and no different to that for His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands.
What it needed a Sam blossom trees is in pink and white Kabul streets a more grass and greenery
No it does not work. Many people who live there are unhappy with the lack of freedom for use of their own property and now cannot get out of it. Also dire lack of local facilities. What you do have is a a very slick professional propaganda machine which spins out very positive publicity whilst quashing any negative reports.
Many cities are high-rise and the lack of parks and greenery! It has a gloomy presence
What a great idea, it looks beautiful, god bless king charlesb
It looks false to me it doesn't look natural there's just something missing
No style, no harmony, gloomy, bad quality, .... what else could you wish for ?
The buildings look to be 17th to the late 18th century built during the 20th century
Lack of insulation (sound...)
Paris is filthy - i don't think its beautiful at all. id rather go to Birmingham
Since you so admire and love Paris, you might like to know who we owe so much beauty to, and how it came about. Enjoy (on YT): "Legendary Megastructures | The Gigantic Architectural Transformation of Paris | FD Engineering" - Free Documentary - Engineering
It looks like a hospital
Rem; also, typically the VERY worst of Modern Architecture does tend to fall into just two broad though not mutually exclusive categories. Those defined by either pretentious mediocrity or by ideological zealotry. Or to summarise, stuff that results from either..
1) talentless architectural gong hunters determinedly trying but failing to impress
2) public sector elites (usually, though far from always, of the more dogma-constipated sort of leftist variety) slinging up imagined "functional" residential or social/civic stuff for the proles', but that the smug bureaucrats who're ultimately responsible for it all, will never have to live in or visit themselves.*
* the typically very sub-standard, even jerry-built stuff, i.o.w. that invariably recalls poet, John Betjeman's verdict on the subject. Couched in verse featuring a classically British brand of sarcastic imagery so acid it could dissolve Limestone....
" I have a Vision of The Future, chum,
The worker's flats in fields of soya beans
Tower up like silver pencils, score on score
And Surging Millions hear the Challenge come
From microphones in communal canteens
"No Right! No wrong! All's perfect, evermore.""
(Except, of course, for the poor sods who have to live in such Soviet-style tributes to Marxist state paternalism🙄)
Your sound is rather low..
Please don't use better help, they are a terrible company.
Only a dumb person wont admit to being wrong , so you cant be wrong young man , keep learning and wiling to make corrections to your journey of understanding and knowledge
Nearly half a million pounds and uo for a house😢
How about concentrating on the subject in the headlines. I'm not interested in your advertisements