The Price of Saving Grand Central Station
The UK is absolutely full of Victorian buildings which we go to great lengths to preserve. It&#x27;s, I think, a reaction to the sixties when we were going to great lengths to pull them down.<p>The problem is that you end up living in an architectural monoculture. There&#x27;s literally millions of Victorian terraced houses in the UK now and endless endless rows of drab 30s semi-detached houses. It&#x27;s a shame that there&#x27;s less of a drive to build new things. Yes, you end up with failures and architectural mistakes, but you also end up with gems and truly interesting buildings.<p>I don&#x27;t know exactly what the answer is, but I think empowering more local small scale development, even if it means we lose a small percentage of Victorian terraces or semis, would be a start.