Ben Southwood

Roger Scruton’s campaign for beautiful buildings is finally being won

The late Roger Scruton (Getty images)
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Travelling around Britain, one is given the sense that built up areas are mostly ugly, while the countryside is mostly beautiful. As a lover of the urban, this is distressing. For new buildings to be ugly feels as inevitable as death and taxes. But it does not have to be.

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