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If what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate, then by the end of the century Great Britain will consist of isolated oases of preserved monuments in a desert of wire, concrete roads, cosy plots and bungalows…Upon this new Britain the Review bestows a name in the hope that it will stick—subtopia.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ian Nairn

Ian Nairn

Born: November 9, 1930
Died: August 15, 1983 (aged 52)
Bio: Ian Douglas Nairn was a British architectural critic who coined the word ‘Subtopia’ to indicate drab suburbs that look identical through unimaginative town-planning.
Known for:
  1. Nairn's London. (1966)
  2. Nairn's Towns (1967)
  3. Surrey (1962)
  4. Sussex (1965)
  5. Your England Revisited (1964)

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