• Urban planning and the long legacy of brutalism

    Urban planning and the long legacy of brutalism
    Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’ analysis of shifting architectural trends Simon Jenkins provides a timely account of how, from the 1960s onwards, plans for wholesale demolition of large parts of urban areas began to be challenged (The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against ‘sod you architecture’, 28 October). He cites the 1974 Covent Garden revolt, which saw citizens, enlightened planners such as Ian Robert Christie – whose legacy is to be honoure

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