'Pure market approach would never deliver Breathe village'SUPPLIED An artist's impression of the 2012 winning Breathe Urban Village planned for the corner of Madras and Gloucester St next to Latimer Square. Breathe was a flagship project started in 2012 by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority with a design-and-build urban village competition, but was abandoned in 2015 and the land remains vacant. Roberts said the Government at the time was unwilling, or unable, to recognise that insistence on a pure market approach would not deliver. READ MORE:* Scrapped Breathe competition a 'waste of time and money'* Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee slates Breathe Urban Village* Breathe a 'lost opportunity'"This level of naïve neo-liberal faith that the markets could deliver urban regeneration to a badly damaged city was not seen even in Margaret Thatcher's Britain," she said. Dr Roberts was a member of one of the Breathe competition teams, Viva, and one of four finalists.

Source: Stuff February 17, 2018 03:21 UTC