Jonathan Glancey get all used-universe on us:

“Today, many of us are unable, or unwilling, to change a fuse or even patch a bicycle tyre, much less repair a locomotive or build a ship. We are fast becoming a nation ignorant of how things are made or work even as the nation’s infrastructure crumbles around us. Who cares? What excites us, as the opening of the new-look Birmingham Bull Ring proves, is the passive consumption of shiny new gewgaws, most produced abroad, rather than the making of the practical machinery that gets us to our glamorous new shops in the first place.”

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