ABSTRACT
In Chapter 9, we focused on the problem of area A, an inner area of our fictitious town which we supposed to be ripe for comprehensive redevelopment. We now turn our attention to sector Z, which we suppose to be a larger and much more heterogeneous area on the opposite side of the same town, extending outwards from the central area to the rural fringe, and posing immediate problems of improvement and new development rather than of total renewal. We will at this point give the town a name – Fluxton – which is intended to be suggestive of any urban community in a state of continuing physical and social change. As in the previous chapter, we will maintain a distinction between ‘the local planners’ (who formulate proposals) and ‘the policy-makers’ (who are publicly accountable for planning decisions), although there is a possibility that these may not represent exactly the same groups of people as for area A, since we are now dealing with a different part of town and perhaps therefore with a different set of problems and of planning perspectives.
