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The publication of the Prince of Wales’s 10 principles of urban design, followed by images of Quinlan and Francis Terry’s sketch of a proposal for Hyde Park Barracks and an image of a Robert Adam-designed trio of towers in Reading, has sparked a predictable tut-tutting from outraged critics and architects.
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Dittmar, H. (2019). Style Wars Are Irrelevant when Architecture Is Reduced to Floor-Plate Cladding. In: My Kind of City. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-64283-037-8_5
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