In my last post I examined some of the work of Anna Minton in her book ‘Ground Control’. Showing how government policy and urban planning has created a serious inequality over access to public space in modern Britain.

I will now analyse some of the ways that Minton has suggested, in the final chapter of her book, to potentially move forwards away from this.

Non plan:

As a backlash against centralised urban planning that had dominated up to the the 50’s and 60’s there was a controversial push to get rid of any kind of planning all together.

In 1969 Paul Barker collaborated with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price on the article ‘Non-Plan: an experiment in freedom’. Here they argued that in the past, planning had always cast aside the ideals of the people that actually lived there.This has been seen in examples such as demolishing whole areas of housing and displacing mass amounts of people, or having no…