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Compelling case but Wigglesworth has already given a very good reason why this man's vision is to a lrge degree un-tenable; will people want to work and be taught in places that are made in this way?

What of the effect on the cohesion of the city itself which the outside of a building addresses? Unless we are going to say goodbye completely to the notion of considered city making / planning, this man's ideas are not tenable. The scary thing is that the devlopment of crass forms of procurement, catalysed by the likes of Egan, Tesco etc.. has already taken us half the way there.

The other thing about this spontaneous outbreak MMC eulogising is that the time for adpoting it is not now - in the middle of double dip recession - but when economoc times are good because of the high level of captial investment that is needed in terms of the building of factories, gearing up of manufacturing and training of the workforce that MMC prefab demands in order to make it sustainable / workable in both the long and short term.