alice brownfield is an architect.he's worried about recent developments and how they'll change the makeup of the city. i think the most important thing is that we should be creating spaces and buildings that help forge mixed and diverse communities, and we need a good balance of everything. in hackney, east london, parents and children stage a protest at the local town hall. their school, too, is facing closure - which would force many families out of the area. without a school, they can't stay. we would probably have to move out of the borough, which would be incredibly sad. we've been here for over 15 years, we love it, our children love it. the closure is almost unavoidable. but the residents won't give up without a fight. i don't know what a city looks like if you don't have children in it, if you don't have families in it. i can't really imagine what sort of a place that would be, but i think it would be kind of a sad place, rather a soulless place. a soulless london. hardly a dream scenario for the mayor and his