ABSTRACT
Since the Second World War there has been a depressing amount of panic planning in British towns and cities. By this is meant that there has been a tendency to react exclusively to one information set at the expense of all the others relevant to the problem. In the case of urban design, undue attention has been paid to those who have advocated radical solutions to hypothetical crises. In existing places this has often resulted in massive surgery which has left the patient unrecognizable.
