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Patrick’s article in the October CIBSE journal

In the run up to Patrick’s appearance at this year’s CIBSE Building Performance Conference and Exhibition, this month’s CIBSE journal contains an article by Patrick on his views of future cities. The article swings from a pristine utopian ideology to a dark, morbid dystopia: Patrick highlights key issues within society, its urban fabric and the lack of real leadership on the environment.

“‘The age of great men is going; the epoch of the anthill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning,’ wrote the Swiss moral philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel in the mid-19th century. His words somehow anticipate the global population explosion and the shift of people to the city in the 20th century …”
–Patrick Bellew CIBSE Journal October 2016

The continue reading Patrick’s essay please click here or find it in the CIBSE Journal October 2016 issue.

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