A quick look round the Newington Estate near Elephant & Castle.
Plain 1970s architecture, the stark geometric shapes denuded of all surface interest. Cheap yellow bricks. It looks as if the architect had been determined to design a completely souless environment without joy or personality.
Social housing for the deserving poor perhaps, but the deserving poor must never forget they are beholden to the state for their subsistence, and on no account must they be indulged with fripperies such as architectural embellishments.
A generally safe and well-maintained place to live. Anti-social issues are mainly due to the boredom consequent to youth unemployment. For many unemployed people with low educational achievement the past is a blank and the future merely a continuation of the present.
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