tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post4047127844161745116..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Smart Tech Cities - the new company townUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-35317262408562060742018-02-23T20:18:40.114+00:002018-02-23T20:18:40.114+00:00I would defend Titus Salt (of Saltaire) because th...I would defend Titus Salt (of Saltaire) because the times were so different then - true, he had a patriarchal agenda with moralising overtones but, in exchange, he offered his mid-19th century workers social standards unimaginable only a few miles away in festering Bradford. Healthcare, education, housing etc, all vastly superior to any other working environment at the time.<br /><br />Any Western corporate now aiming to create the 'company town' would be doing it from a completely different base, with a completely different population. Western governments discovered with the Vietnam war that conscription was no longer feasible in their democracies - the same will be true of 'company towns', the people value their freedoms too highly, even their freedom to be wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-39317327089566392102018-02-22T23:04:26.468+00:002018-02-22T23:04:26.468+00:00Saltaire?Saltaire?Juliet 1946https://www.blogger.com/profile/04560420662083451776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-18409006689669149822018-02-22T23:02:38.506+00:002018-02-22T23:02:38.506+00:00Saltaire?Saltaire?Juliet 1946https://www.blogger.com/profile/04560420662083451776noreply@blogger.com