The Observer devotes almost a whole page to lauding the 25-year efforts of my former professor Michael Edwards and a group of local activists in ensuring a better vision for the King's Cross development.
"The main message is that the wisdom of citizens should routinely count for much more than it does in British planning, because it is always local people who understand the aspirations of their community and the way their particular public spaces work," the paper says.
"Regeneration appears to be about structures, high finance and profit but, of course, it only really works if local people and their homes aren't swept aside by the interests of capitalism."
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