A human feel also came from the use of timber and brick and from a creative intermingling of 'polite' urban architecture and long-established rural traditions.

There seems to be a peculiar vogue at the moment for uninteresting pictures of poor urban architecture, of petrol stations and grungy public spaces.

Urban architecture cannot reasonably be preserved in the style of earlier ages but the design of a historic street should not be jettisoned for the convenience of one occupier.

The second, at no. 63, puzzled contemporary critics as being monumental yet neither historic nor modern, a style appropriate for contemporary urban architecture.

The rest of the urban architecture was modest and vernacular.