Cities are so last century | Letters

Thanks to the technology revolution, towns are now the best places to provide work and community Thomas Heatherwick, and his vision of the future of the city landscape (“The city will be a new kind of space”, Magazine), fails to address the question: why cities in the first place? From the agricultural revolution around Ur to the Industrial Revolution, cities have been the centre of trade and commerce and provided a magnet to more rural populations. All this has been superseded by the technology revolution. If we hope to people our cities by luring visitors to these original cultural centres, we are in effect transforming our cities into museums of the past. I suggest that towns now provide the elements of work, locality and community that will be more sustainable as gathering places and for cultural endeavours. Architecture can achieve so much; what it often doesn’t address is the ultimate purpose. Felicity McGowan Cardigan, Ceredigion Continue reading...
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