Post by Whisker on Jul 24, 2012 23:40:41 GMT -1
Is this an issue we need to get behind - supporting designers, architects and politicians, who will push the idea of "greening" our cities forward? Or are we still producing city "landscapes" of "dead" apartment blocks?
There is a crisis in urban planning in London: a disconnection from Nature. Hundreds of thousands of children are growing up without ever having sunk their hands in the soil. And many of their parents have never planted a bulb, or grown a vegetable. Is it the first time in human history that two generations of families have lived with such a degree of separation from earth, plants and the rhythm of the seasons?
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/8879139/The-battle-to-save-Londons-green-spaces.html
