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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.

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You can't impose a legacy.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: June 11th, 1943

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