Memories of the war shame today's tentative terrorist measures
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There has been a profound difference between evacuating parliament and evacuating people, just as the difference between asking boroughs for holding sites and manufacturing coffins in advance. 3.5 million papier mache coffins were made in four weeks in the spring of 1940, when the fear of aerial bombardment was at its height.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2004
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Why forecasts for LondonEs future are as fickle as the British weather
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A mischievous reversal of the relationship between data and information appear to have settled like a meteorological depression over the future of London. Several surveys conducted to know the attitudes of the people on urban life are presented.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2003
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