ABSTRACT
Prior to the 1980s the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) had been largely contemptuous of community architecture because it was a threat to the architect's control. In 1986, however, the community architecture specialist Rod Hackney was elected President of the RIBA. Also in 1989, an organization called Business in the Community (BITC) established the Urban Villages Group' under advice from its president: the Prince of Wales. A more important influence came from the revitalized Communitarian' movement of the 1980s and the formation of the Communitarian Network' in 1993, the same year as New Urbanism. Community was reinvented in the 1980s, then. It became something to be built by planning experts and sold by commercial developers, not something to be preserved in defiance of them. Scott Brown offered another provocation in 1990, albeit not as well-known as Las Vegas, when she was asked to look back over the previous decades of community planning.
