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...The development corporations set up by Heseltine to resurrect Liverpool and the London docklands trampled on local democracy, sweeping away planning rules, cleaning toxic sites, making provisions for schools...
...Additional reporting by Joshua Franklin...
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
...Taken together, this burst of government activism carries echoes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Depression, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society reforms of the 1960s....
...“This, arguably, would nudge corporations with more force than the rule that is currently in place,” he said....
...With his commitment to levelling up poorer regions and favourable references to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, Boris Johnson has also indicated a new direction of travel....
...“I don’t think you should underestimate the extent to which the corporate community feels under threat,” he said....
...It would be very sad if incredible institutions like the V&A turn up in the park, drawn by the pull of the creative community, but by the time the building is finished, that community has been moved on.”...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Obama....
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