ABSTRACT
This brief closing chapter recounts the aims and agendas of British Positivism. It outlines how subsequent generations of sociologists, town planners and architects developed, expanded and carried Positivist ideas into Western twentieth-century design. It thus reveals how different aspects of Positivist theory and practise percolated into the creations of the modern movements such as the Amsterdam School, the Bauhaus and CIAM well as the work of such progressive designers as Patrick Abercrombie, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier. The aim here is to show the enduring flexibility and varying perspectives Positivism offered to those concerned with human-centric design.
