The "scandal" surrounding public transport's sustainability, architects distracted by "petty squabbles" and the US's defense tactics a "bipartisan blunder".
"Subsidized transit is not sustainable by definition. The potential of public transit has been so overblown it's almost scandalous."
The Vancouver Sun
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"There was always a danger that … the RIBA would end up looking even more confused on the issue than it is already. This is because any sensible person would come to the rapid conclusion that the RIBA's ongoing war with Arb is unseemly, tedious and bordering on the irrelevant. which is exactly what the independent report … says this week. Reading between the lines, one senses he is struck how architects - with their petty squabbles and navel-gazing - are being distracted from the bigger picture."
BD Online
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"Given that we currently spend more on national security than the rest of the world put together, have several thousand nuclear weapons, face no great power rivals, and don't have any serious enemies nearby, it's kind of hard to argue that we're 'neglecting' our defenses. We are using them unwisely and Obama is about to make his own contribution to this bipartisan blunder, but we're not exactly scrimping."
Foreign Policy
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"There will be no small neighbourhoods as in the old suburbs. Local shops? There are not even any deciduous trees at Dunlop, and if you aren't old enough to drive a car, then tough. There are almost no buses in the greenest, highest taxed city in Australia, outside of peak times."
The Australian
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"If these were all open-minded individuals, not affected by the design philosophies of the moment, free from a passionate belief in the absolute correctness of their ideologies, prepared to accept the validity of opposing points of view, keen to learn from people with a different aesthetic outlook, interested in what the public thinks and able to distinguish between quality and personal taste, there's a chance it would work. This however, eliminates just about every architect in Britain."
BD Online
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