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- People
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
- Everything
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
- Legacy
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You can't impose a legacy.
- Future
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
- I Am
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
- Form
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
- Bread
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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