It's an Ill Wind
H ARMAN: Such factors as the shortage of domestic help in the past 30 years has drastically affected the planning of homes, and has compelled more compact planning and more general use of labour-saving inventions-such as vacuum cleaners and electric water heating. Don’t you think that
young people who have been moved from one mode of living to another will remember some of the better things they have seen? DAWBER: It would be quite unlike children if they didn’t. And the more observant and ambitious will want some of these advantages for themselves. HARMAN: ‘Then there is town planning. The devastation
in the more crowded areas of large towns at Home, ghastly though it is, may hasten the re-arrangement of tenement houses, so that the poorer people will have more healthy homes, with greater open spaces and breathing space; But whether these new housing schemes will take the form of enormous blocks of flats, or whether they will be comparatively small homes in terraces, with all modern facilities and little private gardens, as some people advocate, I am not prepared to say. But I think Londoners will make better use of this upheaval than they did of the great city clearance in 1666-caused by the Great Fire. — (R. S. D. Harman and Bruce Dawber, "Things As Seen By An Artist-Future Trends," 3YA, October 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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228It's an Ill Wind New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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