building a neighborhood

“The speed of change prevents the environment organisers from settling down and learning by experience how to humanize the raw material thrown at them. In consequence the environment is ill-digested….The gastic juices, as represented by planners, have not been able to break down all the vast chunks of hastily swallowed stodge into emotional nutriment. We may be able to do many things our grandarents could not do but we cannot digest any faster. The process, be it stomach or brain, is part of our human bondage. And so we have to make organisational changes in order that human scale can be brought into effective contact with the forces of development…..” Gorden Cullen in The Concise Townscape- 1961