How do we fall back in love with the future?

And we should do so using the cumulated and organic wisdom of the last 1000 years not just the last 100. [...] The types of places in which we like to be and wish to walk, which raise the spirits and warm the heart, which encourage knowing our neighbours and feeling at home in the world, such places are highly predictable. [...] Instead of running circular and inward-looking design competitions, judged by designers for designers with the people’s preferences shut out, we need to ask: what do the public love?2 Where do they want to be? What will sing not just of our time but of all time? What is of this place not of any place? What will the public not oppose but clamour for? What will be cherished and preserved in 2500 or. [...] Here Euston Station is less of an individual building and more a glorious and new part of the city. [...] To achieve something like this instead of the normal bland stacked boxes of tedious and dreary ugliness we need to embed public preferences unshakeably in the selection and design process and ensure that the designers, engineers, developers and architects work primarily to the people’s preferences not to that of their fellow professionals.