Leon Krier now lives in Provence, after living in England for 20 years. He is internationally known as a path-breaking architect and urbanist. He was personal adviser to the Prince of Wales and master-planned the new settlement, Poundbury, in Dorset, UK. His books include Architecture: Choice or Fate (1998).

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Land scarcity in Britain is a myth spun into fact by planning controls. To this extent Jules Lubbock is right. But the way towards individual freedom and community rebirth, says Prince Charles’s favourite architect, is not to collapse the controls, but through the careful release of millions of plots of land in variegated new settlements.