ABSTRACT
Behind the long discussion of issues in the previous four chapters — and, if discussion could have resolved them, they would have been resolved long ago — a deeper issue is lurking, just visible beneath the surface. It is: how do we go about building and changing our cities? What mechanisms could we use to improve the ways in which we influence the distribution of economic activity and employment, build homes in adequate numbers and of adequate quality, in the right places to meet demand, meet the challenge of climate change, and provide sustainable connections between the places where people work, study, live and play? For it has become increasingly evident, over the last four chapters, that the existing mechanisms are not working well, or in some cases are hardly working at all.
