ABSTRACT
Environmentally-aware Nimbyism takes different forms and devises different enemies. But the phenomenon is the same: a resistance to any form of change, led by village Hampdens who want life to remain endlessly the same. This demands something very like Ebenezer Howard's concept of a century ago. Stephen Potter of the Open University New Towns Study Unit found that, while both Garden Cities and New Towns abandoned Howard's transport priorities, True mobility is dependent upon unhindered access and the ability to use all the major forms of transportation that are available. None is so minor as to be unworthy of consideration in the planning context, or anticipated to be in the future. The planning system automatically favours the established speculative developer who automatically assumes the white-collar male home-owner in secure employment. But he is a diminishing species, not only demographically, but in terms of the flexible labour market sought by successive government for three decades.
