Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Lesson 5: How to be a good Secretary for Development

Eight Worksheets for Government Self-study and Improvement
How to be a good Secretary for Development: Lesson 5
Conservation vs Development: A False Dichotomy

When dealing with protesters over the destruction of Queen's Pier in Central, Government spokespeople said that the protesters were simply 'against development' and that we need to have a balance between conservation and development. This worksheet addresses that 'dichotomy', between looking after what we have and moving forward.

Here, for fun, is an article from the Guardian, a London newspaper, about the rising value of the 'flat over a shop' in inner city communities.
Living above a shop used to be seen as slumming it - but not any more.
The 'flat over' was seen as a safe haven for people moving to big cities since it first became common in Victorian times. It was traditionally large (the first ones were for the shop-owners themselves), always at the heart of communities, secure and near public transport.
Graham Norwood
The Observer, Sunday May 25, 2003

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