
Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Mary Wakefield, Peter Hitchens
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New University and College Buildings in the City of Minneapolis
New university and college buildings are bowhouse styled cuboids, which seem to get higher thyears go by. Colleges have squeezed funky 19 60 blocks in among their ancient quadrangles. An enormous shopping mall well suited to minneapolis has arisen west of the centre. The old covered market, which in my teens was a flourishing, exciting placesow dies. And now we have a new plan that will destroy almost 100 mature trees in a conservation area on a hillside to the east of the city. It is time for central government to put such places under the rule of a kind of prefect who understands that some things are more valuable than money.
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