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Jo Nean
Date:
May 09 09:53 UTC
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Well I haven't received an invite so I doubt it is to do with this list. I
have just written to ask for one. Will see what happens.
Jo.
2008/5/9 Tony Cook <tony@twopiers.co-op.org>:
> Apart from how one gets included on these lists I too pondered the use
> of this term "corridor". Brighton has been branded as the place to be
> yet presumably, through default of terminology, London Road is
> conceived as that part of it one simply passes through to get to
> somewhere else. Hence the vast amounts of cash already spent on
> ensuring the present status of this neighbourhood as one huge traffic
> magnet. Where exactly are people passing through to, the Palace Pier,
> North Street, in search of a mystical seafront parking space?
>
> Presumably this would be the reason why Sainsburys (and now Tesco)
> view this neighbourhood as the perfect location for their drive-to
> supermarkets. Which seems a good point to begin questioning the core
> premise of any "masterplan". The way forward in my mind would be to
> encourage a far greater integration of residential, leisure,
> commercial and social infrastructure, reducing our cherished
> dependancy upon increasingly unsustainable armour-plated armchairs.
>
> For inspiration on how this challenge has been tackled elsewhere this
> is a useful start: http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/189
>
> As to how I got onto the list - I'm not a local resident by the way -
> I'd assumed it had something to do with this forum. I'd expressed an
> opinion so it was considered wise to have me in the tent 'looking' out
> rather than outside 'looking' in, if you get my meaning.
>
> Tony C
>
> Tony Cook
>
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