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@M O'Niell, Buckingham Palace has a relationship to the cityscape? Come off it! It turns its back on a 6 lane roadway and roundabout (bigger than anything running through Wakefield), I suppose you wouldn't admit to The Mall being created by 'Road Engineers'

The points you make are all well and good, but how come Hong Kong and New York can make vibrant decent cityscapes with modern 'corporate' architecture. Its mainly because they rejected to dull, soul-destroying boulevard approach that classical planning is so desperate to enact. London was thankfully saved from Wrens disastrous masterplan, with the corporate city revelling in its ancient street plan.

Architects need to engage more publicly with the likes of Peter Ackroyd, Tristram Hunt et al, and convince the public about the unspoken good things that are happening.