Development, Part 3a 03 EbenezerHowardThreeMagnets Housing by People Housing by People <http://yclsa-eom-forum.googlegroups.com/web/1503%2C+Housing+by+People%2C+C1 %2C+C6%2C+Who+Decides%2C+Turner.doc?hl=en&gda=-kJ15nQAAAAFjQ6FFq8vKuwi7yizXs X1_KIka77lHkVwTxhqgZ9g09x8AV9R8GfbyynxPODKU-sQy1id3x8cInJTS_Ccdrzs0WB9P8W3Z_ Kkr7uLRS4DprnCy8f58nL8bUvXB44> (excerpts attached), by John Charlewood Turner, is a discussion of housing, from a well-educated point of view, as well as a discussion of where decisive power should lie, who should act, and how all of these responsibilities should be divided up. Turner's book can serve us as a small link to the great, beautiful and necessary field of study called urbanism, of which very little emerges into the general public realm. Urbanism is a site of ideological struggle. It is also a labyrinth, in which it is easy to get lost. Turner, as you will see, refers to "the mirage of development"; meaning the illusion of development. Turner's focus in the two chapters that are given here is on autonomy versus heteronomy, and on proscription versus prescription. In short, he is in favour of Power to the People. Turner is undoubtedly a partisan of the poor petty-bourgeoisie, and is a very clear-minded student of, and exponent of, their needs. For the partisans of the working class, Turner's guidelines are therefore invaluable. They provide insight into the world of a class that is quite different from the proletariat. The two classes are very close in time and space, even as close as to be co-existent in the same biological families; yet their needs and outlooks are different. Predecessors to Turner in this urban-studies tradition have been Patrick Geddes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Geddes> , Lewis Mumford <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford> , and Ebenezer Howard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard> . The illustration shows Howard's famous diagram "The Three Magnets", from his 1902 book "Garden Cities of To-morrow". . The above is to introduce the original reading-text: Housing by People, C1, C6, Who Decides?, John Turner <http://studycircle.wikispaces.com/file/view/13032%2C%20Turner%2C%20Housing% 20by%20People%2C%201976%2C%20C1%2C%20C6%2C%20Who%20Decides.pdf/573437741/130 32%2C%20Turner%2C%20Housing%20by%20People%2C%201976%2C%20C1%2C%20C6%2C%20Who %20Decides.pdf> . . A PDF file of the reading text is attached . To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here <http://studycircle.wikispaces.com/Communist+University> . -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
