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People, Not Architecture, Make Communities
Author(s) -
Heartfield James
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.198
Subject(s) - architecture , disengagement theory , conversation , cohesion (chemistry) , citizenship , government (linguistics) , sociology , media studies , political science , law , history , archaeology , communication , gerontology , medicine , linguistics , chemistry , philosophy , organic chemistry , politics
Abstract 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 disengagement 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.