Homo Bureaucraticus
Sig.-Terence Bendixson's excellent suggestion (April 15) of building offices around courtyards with windowless walls (or possibly double-glazed win- dows) overlooking heavily trafficked streets needs to -be applied-to homes as Well as offices. Having lived in houses built alongside main roads. I know it i4 impossible to get a good night's rest in them. Let- us hope future developers will show some imagina- tion and that the system of building rows of houses alongside main roads is gone for ever.
In the past few years we have made great pr& gress in combating traffic menaces by creating traffic-free shopping precincts and by building sub). ways. The motor vehicle, paradoxically, is making us find and create better ways of planning our cities.
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