One obvious answer to these conundrums is increased focus on "sustainability", along with the questionable notion that because something has a lot of vegetation on it, it must be good for the environment. Accordingly, urban farms are part of this peculiar trend. As early as the mid-1980s, Prince Charles advocated turning the depopulated streets of central Liverpool into farmland, something which seemed connected to his war against modern architecture around the same time... — theguardian.com
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Rather than Prince Charles being for local and organic farming, a place's character, and preservation, it's a "war on modern architecture" becasue he happens to agree with the public that a lot of modernism is ugly? Even urban agriculture is a problem now yet when those empty spaces get developed it's the rapacious neo-liberal developers. Who's the smartest chap in the room? Who cares...
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