If only we had developers with as much sagacity.

I was going to say designers, but we do have some of them. And since the idea that the government help house its citizenry is viewed as sedetion, I can’t point fingers there either. Jonathan Glancey takes a look a Prince Charles’ nostalgically-correct suburb, Poundbury. And in the second para manages more wit than we get in a year from Preparation H.

what more and more of us wants is a box of our own, whether thatched with roses around the door, or fabricated in concrete with big windows and designed by earnest young architects sporting important glasses and shoes as difficult as the unpronouncable names of their e-world practices.