Anarchy 83/Planners and protesters
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As with housing, so with town planning. The ordinary citizen has hardly any control over the urban environment, and is not expected to want any. It is a matter for the authorities, working in secrecy and presenting the citizens with a fait accompli. The problem, and the possibility of action were discussed in anarchy 41 by Robert Swann in a remarkable article “Direct Action and the Urban Environment”. Here David Gurin examines it, again in an American context.
Planners and protesters
DAVID GURIN’s paper was read to the Conference on Radicals in the Professions at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in July last year. He is a New Yorker with a master’s degree in City Planning from Harvard.
