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Prince Charles' New Architecture BlastPrince Charles has launched an attack on the "cavalier attitude" of Britain's architects and town planners.
He told a Royal College of Physicians conference how car-focused cities affect rates of obesity, respiratory problems, asthma and heart disease.
"When we build badly, it doesn't only affect the health of the natural environment, it affects our own health as well," said the prince.
He urged that new buildings be seen as part of a "living language".
And he warned against the dangers of architecture being used to make iconic statements or indulge in egotistical ambitions.
The prince made his speech at the society's conference on the healing environment in London.
He said the UK's built and natural environment had been "brutalised" over the past century.
But he was keen to stress how the "notion of healing" should be applied to our natural environment as well as to the individual.
"We need to relax our somewhat obsessive preoccupation with treating specific symptoms of diseases in isolation," he said.
Instead we need to "look at the whole - the person, the street, the town and city and our natural inheritance - together".
George Ferguson, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, said: "I agree with Prince Charles' sentiments but, if anything, he's generalising too much.
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