Diary 183

Thursday, September 17th

Thinking about time and change, and the fact that we will probably never go back again to things as they were before covid, I came across this page in The Guardian – a photo essay of the changes in London’s architecture.

Take a look at these before/after aerial views of London. I’m no longer surprised that I have difficulty recognizing the place. Londoners still seem to be the same cheery folks as always, but they feel like an endangered species in a highly engineered zoological park. The human scale is not present any more. Cities are for money, not people….

See: theguardian.com for September 18th, 2020.