The Bronx, one of the boroughs of New York, is undoubtedly where this new name for Croydon has derived from and it is truly brilliant. The Bronx just so happens to be an urban area of New York notoriously associated with a poor quality of life as well as being grossly over populated, the latter arguably leading to the former as is thoroughly explained in Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a must read for even the non-architect. So it would seem some what fitting for Croydon to become the Cronx with its reputation as being a poorer place to live and the architectural dumping ground of London. Although I am certain the name Cronx was dreamt up more through the aesthetics of literature rather than due to the similarities with the Bronx, I still think the name is genius and I shall be using this new title on a regular basis as I hope will others. All we can hope for is that the urban situation in the Cronx wont get as desperate as it did in the Bronx.
tW
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