Can someone help me with this quote???

[Rewey]

Hi all,

This has been bugging me for ages, so I thought I'd turn it over to the collective wisdom of the forum to help with...

A few years back I read a quote that said "the purpose of planning is to protect us from the worst excesses of capitalism" (it may not be verbatim, due to limitations of my memory).

Since then, I've sporadically tried searching for it on the internet to identify who it belongs to, but to no avail. Has anyone heard this quote before? Is it ringing any bells? If anyone could help me identify it, it would be most appreciated!

Regards,
Rewey

[Seana]

It rang an "ancient" bell; I found a paraphrase of the quote here (my bolding):

In the 1950s, the Situationist International, a group of radical scholars, artists and architects in Europe, had grown increasingly alarmed at the rationalist urban renewal schemes of modernist architects. . . . . .They set out to confound and resist not only the excesses of bourgeois capitalism but also the tyranny of modernism’s urban form agenda, however progressive its motives.

http://www.spur.org/publications/lib...-city-planning

[Rewey]

Hi Seana,

Thanks for that start. I think that's my problem - the bells it rings are ancient!

You're definitely on the right track. I have a feeling it would have something to do with some form of Marxist-based planning theory. I have a feeling it might have been Leonie Sandercock, but that could be entirely made up in my head...

Any other thoughts, people?

Regards,
Rewey