The fall of Rome?

Friday, March 06, 2009

The fall of Rome?

Was it the case that most of the great buildings in Rome were constructedafter the empire had gone into decline?

If so, there may be hope for us yet. The city of Brussels, we are told, has given the go-ahead for a major facelift of the city's European quarter, which is dominated by EU office blocks. The project aims to mix shops, housing and public spaces with new office buildings, to inject some charm into what has been called an "urban ghetto". 

One has to observe that the prospect of injecting "charm" into anything to do with the EU is rather like investing in a facelift for a crocodile. But there's no accounting for taste.

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I shall no longer post on BrugesGroupBlog and, unless someone takes over, that outlet is now defunct. I had hoped to build up something there but, as I said in that particular Last Post, not every experiment works out. This one has not. Which means, you lucky people, that I shall probably be more in evidence on EUReferendum until I start another blog in parallel to it. What is holding me up is its name. Just cannot think of anything that has not already been taken. But I shall keep trying.

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