Notes
1. Boyd Whyte, I. (Ed.) (2007) Man-Made Future: Planning, Education, and Design in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain (Abingdon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group), pp. 121–144.
2. Known as SLOAP (Space Left Over After Planning).
3. Obituary, The Times, 6 February 2009, p. 75.
4. Colin Alexander St John Wilson (1922–2007), quoted in the book under review, p. 26.
5. Ling in 1987, quoted in the book under review, p. 11.
6. Ling in 1987, quoted in the book under review, p. 11.
7. Quoted in the book under review, p. 11.
8. Quoted in the book under review, p. 45.
9. Taylor, N. (1973) The Village in the City (London: Maurice Temple Smith), p. 79.
10. Peter Carter, quoted in the book under review, p. 236.
11. This reviewer can remember attending some of these catatonically boring exercises in cupidity, in which the lack of rigour of which Tyler spoke was all too obvious.
12. The Architectural Review, predictably, named Smith ‘planner of the year’ in 1962, the very year in which he became associated with Poulson. Smith declared that the “democratic vote [was] no way to get the sort of changes we need in the North” (The Observer, 21 February 1965). He got his way by intimidation, and could strike the fear of God into City Hall officials (Newcastle Journal, 28 July 1993).
13. Quoted in the book under review, p. 288.
14. Quoted in the book under review, p. 288.
15. Designed by a team led by Geoffrey Copcutt.
16. Baudelaire, C. (1887) La croyance au progrès est une doctrine de paresseux, une doctrine de Belges, Journaux Intimes, 9.