Jules Lubbock explores the history of British town planning legislation in his Tyranny of Taste (Yale University Press, 1995). He was speechwriter for the Prince of Wales's interventions in the architectural debate during the 1980s. He is Professor of Art History at the University of Essex and has just been awarded a major grant for a four-year research study into architecture and town planning since 1945.

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The new urbanism represented by Richard Rogers is shallow and authoritarian. Its impulse to confine people in high-density settlements has disastrous social and economic effects. The truly radical answer is to dismantle the planning system, allow people to live where they wish, and nurture a creative mix between town and country. Let Swindon breathe, the Yorkshire Dales thrive, and Glasgow flourish!