Housing an Anarchist Approach by Colin Ward

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Mr. Engineer (or Architect) if only you had helped us when we most needed your knowledge . . ' " And they present the project illustrated in Architectural Design, to show not what architects and planners are doing in South America, but what they should be doing. POPULAR INITIATIVE IN HOUSING Architectural Design returns to this subject in its August 1968 issue. " "As we tried to answer the question set by the editors, we began with a shared perception that there are many positive aspects From Anarchy, March 1969.

Until he left for the factory where he worked, and again when he got home until it was dark, carrying stone for the foundations and walls on his back one mile to the site. The authors, commenting on the neglect of popular resources remark that "The form of the programme and works which the planner and architect propose must be the suitable vehicles for these resources. Refinement of designs and techniques that cannot be effectively used by these resources are a loss of time, money and effort: a loss often made more tragic when the real 'executive forces'—those of the people—are sowing the seeds of urban chaos, at immense cost and sacrifice, simply for lack of technical aid.

The meeting was doomed from the start. It was explained from the platform that housing and rehousing were not on the agenda (the sum of money anyway would not even make a dent on housing needs), but that a separate concurrent project was to bring forward the compulsory purchase of substandard housing, and the provision of new homes. I asked a GLC officer for a personal view on the actual implications of this, and I was told that the Home Office cash was really just the icing on the cake, and the real importance of the scheme was acceleration of rehousing.

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