People, Not Architecture, Make Communities

摘要

Community is an illusive and, in many respects, unpredictable quality. A sense of citizenship does not simply follow on from a replication of the Victorian, walkable city, just as public disengagemeni and a lack of social cohesion are not immediate attributes of car-based and low-density conurbations. As David Miliband mp, Minister of Communities and Local Government, asserts: 'Architecture on its own can't make communities.' Here, in conversation with James Heartfield, Miliband discusses the problems at the heart of sustainable communities - at a time of pending urgency as housing demand far outstrips supply.