Feast and famine are occupying my mind, with the excesses of Mipim just a couple of weeks behind me and a week of sponsored abstinence looming -I have to eat and drink for £1 a day for a week for the Article 25 charity's Live Below the Line campaign.I've also been thinking about the economic equivalent of feast and famine, boom and bust, which has been the scourge of the construction industry, including architecture, for decades. From the sixties to the eighties, our industry was consciously used as an economic regulator, controlling growth in booms and cutting public spending in busts. Of course, Gordon Brown then famously put an end to boom and bust, and we all know what happened next.
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