Urban planning theory, my style

Tom Turner wrote a clear essay on the history of urban planning and design. The hierarchy of roads over housing over the garden needs reconsidering. The seductive use of maps and words by politicians and designers may lead one to believe there is a right and a wrong way of laying out squares and roads. But Turner makes a case for less binary or-or mono-function and more diffuse categories. Bottom-up initiatives may aid us as designers. Hands-on design is to be preferred over clean-hands off-site design.

Still, I find the structuring of spaces as put forward by Edmund Bacon an inspiring method.

For sale here. Apple Podcast by Tom Turner