I say it’s Cross Burgess Street but for all I know the highways and byways of New Jerusalem might have been renamed and this place could now be called Pavilion of Beulah Tower…
Those articles that used to appear in the Telegraph and are now relayed by the Sheffield Tribune are fairy tales, marked by the parochial paternalism that characterises the civic authorities and their establishment supporters.
They are dependent on exaggerated claims, an arrogance that assumes expertise on the part of decision makers and their allies, which they do not really possess, wholesale ignorance on the part of the general citizenry, and a willingness to kowtow to the lies that are necessary to support the status quo and vested interests.
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of expertise. The first is real technical expertise, acquired through learning and the deployment of skills and development of aptitudes for the benefit of the community as a whole. A consultant oncologist is an example of an expert of this type. The second form of expert consists of individuals who operate from a position of self-regard and self-interest by means of mystification and contempt laden power – think bankers and politicians, as well as city planners.
Groundless wishful thinking is no way to plan a city of the future. Standard issue glass and steel identikit buildings divorced from their environment can look bright and shiny to begin with, but soon degenerate into alienating and unhomely non-places.
Those cheap glass palaces at the top of the Moor adjoining Pinstone Street haven’t been around for long and they’re already looking horrible.
Sheffield Patrol Group 