Acknowledgements

The author records his warm thanks to the following for permission to include in this book, for worldwide publication, selected extracts or quotations from the publications shown:
 

 

Jonathan Cape Limited, The Human Zoo, by Desmond Morris, 1969.

Design, A City is not a Tree, by Christopher Alexander, 1966.

BBC Worldwide, The Ascent of Man, by Dr Jacob Bronowski, 1973.

George Melly, article on London, The Guardian, 1989.

Rogers, Coleridge and White Limited, Offbeat England, by Miles Kington, The Independent, 1988.

The Controller, HMSO Publications, How do you Want to Live, 1972, Traffic in Towns, 1963; The Report of the Commission on the Third London Airport and Planning for Beauty (by Judy Hillman for the Royal Fine Art Commission), 1990. © Crown copyright.

Random House Inc, and Jonathan Cape Limited (British Commonwealth rights), The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, 1961.

All of the illustrations in this book were drawn by the author, with the exception of the two figure ground plans included on pages 10 and 11, which were drawn by the author's younger son, Benedict Tibbalds. All photographs were taken by the author.