“Herbert Manzoni belongs to a different time and you have to judge him by that period”

Interesting article  in the Birmingham Post this week about the 50th anniversary of the retirement of Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor of Birmingham, who has been described as bringing “more damage to the city than the Luftwaffe could only ever dream of”.

The article includes comment by Prof Carl Chinn and our own director Simon Buteux, quoted above.

Read More http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2013/03/08/sir-herbert-manzoni-the-man-who-changed-the-face-of-birmingham-65233-32950384/#.UUWrkJWqP0Q.email#ixzz2Nq1MoRBW

 

 

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