Inept Planning Is Threatening England

26 July 2002 - 11:00am

Inept planning is threatening the very foundation of England's towns and cities. Tony Blair must support "good planning."

"The physiques and souls of our urban centres are fragmented because of an essentially ad hoc approach to redevelopment on almost every scale, a meltdown condition exacerbated by the fact that there has been no significant investment in planning or urban development skills for decades. And this despite the fact that – after Bangladesh and Holland – Britain is the world's most densely populated country."

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Source: The Independent, October 7, 2005
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The increased attention to matters of urban design has forced the field to become alert to more aspects of the social and natural sciences, to transportation and civil engineering, water and waste management, zoning and public policy, and other areas earlier considered largely the responsibility of others.