Now dozens of these utilities, often freshly privatised, have developed global ambitions.
The port, which has been owned by Dover Harbour Board since it was formed by royal charter in 1606 by James I, needed to be privatised to fund its development.
We now need to weigh up both urban and suburban qualities, and take proper account of complaints from critical urbanists about socially unjust, sanitised, privatised, uni-cultural and anti-social developments.
It engineered the removal of Roger Agnelli as boss of Vale, a privatised mining giant in which the national development bank, the BNDES, still owns a chunk, because it did not like his emphasis on exporting iron ore to China instead of building steel mills at home.
It is consistent with developments elsewhere in Europe where privatised operators in Austria, Germany and Belgium produce profit margins far higher than the Royal Mail but have continued to provide high-quality and expanding services," he said.
In the following years, the economy of the Philippines became increasingly dependent on labour export, and in 1978, recruiting agencies for labour export were privatised, making it a cornerstone of the Philippine national development strategy.
Many of these are luxury apartments going up in privatised, gated enclaves, stretching from Nine Elms, around the huge new Battersea Power Station development and US Embassy quarter, to Southwark and Blackfriars.
Privatised public zones are appearing throughout Britain and include Birmingham's Brindleyplace, a significant canalside development.
Given the new development, I wondered whether the proposed protection order was paving the way for North End to become privatised.
Governments privatised and deregulated.
