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...The UK fiscal watchdog forecast real public spending per head would be flat for the rest of the decade....
...public institutions when resources come under pressure....
...effective bankruptcy have been laid bare: a 21 per cent increase in council tax, a 100 per cent cut to the city’s cultural organisations, street lights dimmed, youth services cut, adult social care cut, libraries...
...To save money in Birmingham the council has dimmed the street lights....
...Helsinki is building huge public libraries for its citizens, Tokyo has commissioned its most revered architects to design public toilets....
...After that, by pure serendipity, they kept colliding, first in Boston, then in the New York Public Library. Whittemore had the same sad eyes as his illustrious forebear....
...Mecanoo are not the architects you might have expected here: they design huge public buildings in Asia and the US and were responsible for the expensive and rather gross Library of Birmingham, which replaced...
..., youth clubs and libraries....
...Richard Taylor never intended to have a public profile. It was the murder of Damilola that handed him one....
...They can also access the association’s extensive gemmological library, which is one of the largest in Europe....
...William Wallis Well, there’s a statutory obligation to provide an adequate library service. What that actually is, is a bit vague, but Birmingham has a huge public library in the centre of the city....
...“The problem I had with their dissatisfaction was there was nobody in the public library,” he says. “I could read anything I wanted. There were art books . . ....
...If they are in turn supported by urban planners, with more rigorous regulation, transport infrastructure and public facilities such as gyms, libraries and parks, we can keep our cities diverse, youthful...
...And it is a rather dystopian vision that you get of libraries closing down....
...During that time, real-terms spending power of local authorities has fallen by almost one-third, ravaging many services from libraries to youth groups....
...The Museums Association, which tracks redundancies, estimated 4,000 jobs have either been lost or are about to be axed, including 100 at the Royal Academy, 48 at the Birmingham Museums Trust, and 103 at...
...’s Central Library....
...That’s not to say that all northerners are working class, or that all working-class people live north of Birmingham....
...regeneration programme of public and private investment....
...The Library of Birmingham, which opened in 2013 and was designed by another Dutch practice, Mecanoo, illustrates the perils of scale....
...Birmingham’s media team maximised the visual bounty of the bustling rural village scene bathed in autumnal light....
...Over the next five years, we will plant around 30,000 hectares of trees – that’s a forest larger than Birmingham - and restore 35,000 hectares of peatland....
...But after arriving in Australia and New Zealand, it launched in Wales last August, before moving on to Liverpool, Birmingham, Reading, Bath and Bristol in England....
...“We were greatly concerned that measures to protect the public from those men — while in prison and on release — were very poor.”...
...“I never saw the inside of a library” after that, she tells me as we are steered to our table....
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