Building towards insanity: are we sacrificing food security for housing?
Patrick Wright explores the difficulties of balancing the demand for new homes with the demand for affordable food and food...
Read moreDetailsPatrick Wright was born in Leeds and spent his early childhood in Boston Spa. He is now retired, but enjoyed a long career employed in civil engineering as an auditor and business improvement manager in the infrastructure sector, and as a quality engineer in the microtechnology sector. He also spent many years teaching English as a foreign language in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Kuwait and the Sudan, before completing an MBA at Bradford University in the early 90s.
Patrick Wright explores the difficulties of balancing the demand for new homes with the demand for affordable food and food...
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