ABSTRACT
Increasingly, architect-planners and sociologists used the word community' pejoratively, to pour scorn on commercial suburban developments and the suburban realtor's marketing campaign. In the 1920s the architect-planners who would become the backbone of International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) were beginning to prepare their perfect cities, and small fragments of these cities were realized in multi-storey residential developments of superb quality, such as Berthold Lubetkin's elegant High Point flats in London and Le Corbusier's brutally imposing Unit d'Habitation in Marseilles. After each conference, delegates would return to their countries in order to lobby for the implementation of the ideals of CIAM, both in the building and land-use legislation of their respective governments and also in the educational curricula of their schools of architecture and planning. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published a pamphlet in 1938 on Planning Profitable Neighbourhoods', leading some commentators to conclude that the FHA was more interested in money than community.
