Town planning
Sir, — The approach to inner city and suburban community identity should not be grounded on professional elitism nor Citizens Council bureaucratic control, but on a more equitable community determination of a joint decision-making council with community neighbourhood committees and community people. Cooperation is not a key factor in our present willy-nilly structure, otherwise the people and the planners, and the neighbourhood, could decide all the way through what they want their community to look like today, tomorrow and onwards. Do we have to change everything? Are we ashamed of the past? Let us resolve to cease pocket criteria practices in our design and construction of mediocre office buildings and dwellings for this quick profit motive. — Yours, etc., GRAEME STANLEY, April 13, 1980.
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