Tuesday, August 10, 2010  Village Green Preservation Society
Macheath said...  Monbiot's city parks don't seem to have helped
in Villeneuve, Grenoble (courtesy of Anna Raccoon).  Joseph
Takagi said...  Lefty greens have been saying this for years.
The fact is that it's completely the wrong way around. Leafy
avenues, and houses around parks are expensive because of the
facilities, therefore wealthier (non-criminal) types tend to
live near them.  If you put trees up in the worst area of your
town, the hooligans would bring them down in a matter of days.
Mark Wadsworth said...   JT makes a good point, but what he
overlooks is that even in the 'worst' areas, it's only about
five or ten per cent of the residents who are real scum. Why
shouldn't the other 90-95% have somewhere nice to live?  Which
can be easily achieved by relocating the real scum to ex-army
barracks in the middle of nowhere and having nicer play grounds,
parks etc where the low-income-but-law-abiding-people live.
Joseph Takagi said...   I d