'Alison Ravetz has written an epitaph to contemporary planning theory and building technology and anyone remotely concerned with these professions is unlikely to sleep peacefully again after reading her indictment' New Scientist'It is with a sense of admiration and no little relief that one reads Alison Ravetz's work about the remaking of the British urban environment. With this book she has confirmd her earlier reputation of a careful scholar, a sharp observer and meticulous writer; her book is penetrating, balanced and richly rewarding. It is a trenchant criticism of things gone wrong, but finally creative rather than destructive' - Built Environment'... a highly original and thought-provoking text and one which furthers our understanding of planning in a most useful way' - Planning'... a remarkably lucid and well-organised history, illuminated and extraordinary nuggets of illustration from what planners and politicians actually said at the time ... The book is highly recommended, it is eminently readable, and it deserves to be read widely by students and practitioners of planning' - Town and Country Planning'As a critique of what has been happening to the built environment since the last war this is one of the best books I have encountered: readable, suitably synoptic and devastatingly accurate in its analysis ... It ought to be required reading in the redoubts of the planning and architectural professions' - Municipal Journal
