To the cautiously floated question "what is so important about the Electrozavod?", one might reply, so as to avoid explaining oneself to the valued fools, with a question of one's own: "is the city really in such need of new square metres of offices and h
To the cautiously floated question "what is so important about the Electrozavod?", one might reply, so as to avoid explaining oneself to the valued fools, with a question of one's own: "is the city really in such need of new square metres of offices and housing, if the volume of unsold stock and empty flats is growing apace without them?" Surely Muscovites are not queueing up to buy new-builds? I had thought that queues of quite another sort were beginning to form among us, but certainly not for housing. Who, in the end, is going to live in these residential complexes, and who will work in these most businesslike of business centres? Or is it perhaps simply building for the sake of making money, some kind of race to snatch as much as possible as quickly as possible? No, what am I imagining? Such a thing cannot be... What do you think: is it time to initiate a public discussion of the mismatch between the plans for the city's development and its real economy and objective life processes, or is it still a little early, and we should go on watching the Potemkin-style building-up of the capital with the lightest possible distaste?
