Dickensian Vestigial Nub...

There are great blogs that both make my day the way they’re so beautifully written and conceived, makes me feel the slightest tinge of jealousy(how can anyone be that good and that prolific) but also cautions me that it’s NOT ok to write (shit) on the blog just so…
Below is an excerpt from the blog- on urban fabric, badass developers and the possible extinction of savile row…
That ‘meaningful sense of place’ is what the developers are playing with when they talk of “reinforcing the Savile Row brand”, but are they best placed to handle this kind of nuanced brand experience? Rhetorical. London and Britain has long suffered the iron grip of property developers on urban fabric. How is a 40% rent increase going to reinforce anything except the simple displacement of the current tenants? From this distance, this would appear to be another example of how British landlords often reject of the opportunity to combine history, context and innovation, and the long-term economic base that could engender, in favour of a short-term profit which (inadvertently?) changes a place’s identity forever.

Notice how trivia like coveted real estate in Monopoly and the Japanese word for suits are so neatly tied in?

Original post can be found here