Prescott plans 'mega-city' across the North

[longmanshort]

"A vision of a northern England in which people could live in Hull, commute to Liverpool, shop in Leeds and go out in Manchester in one day has gone on show."

Unfortunately, the overly-reactionary contributors to the Beeb's website seem to think this is a serious suggestion to be implimented immediately - you gotta wonder where their imaginations went to die ...

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4187409.stm" target="_blank">"A load of egg cartons and washing up liquid bottl

[longmanshort]

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Up to 5,000 people could live, work and play in each 'Stack' village - a new twist on the skyscraper.

[longmanshort]

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Will Alsop wants to recreate Barnsley as a Tuscan hill village with a luminous ring road encircling it.

Yes dear, of course you do ...

[longmanshort]

Now even MC1 didn't have "buildings built in the shape of a teddy bear" ...

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[Max Kon]

nuts

[Dudley]

Mega-Whippet One?

[Oddboy]

Love the Rubix Cube building!

[Banners]

John Prescott? Mega Two-Cities?

M@

[GordonR]

Hurrah!  In the near-future, we're all going to be living in Lego-land!

[Banners]

Hurrah! In the near-future, we're all going to be living in Lego-land!

Certainly lots of opportunities for Block War then...!

M@ - (getting coat)

[longmanshort]

On a related note:

"Earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters could kill millions in the world's teeming megacities and time is running out to prevent such a catastrophe"

What? You mean Garth Ennis is going to be allowed to script another epic?!?!?

;)

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&u=/nm/20050118/hl_nm/disasters_cities_dc_1&printer=1" target="_blank">We're all dooooooooomed!!!

[judge dreddd]

the only sensible way to reduce world polution is..... reduce the worlds population

[thrillpowerseeker]

I agree..war, famine and disease are our friends..to be embraced for the good of the planet..

[judge dreddd]

i was thinking more of huge house prices and stop building council homes ?