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I've come to this a bit late, but 10 days on, it remains one of the best, most thoughtful contributions.

Ike is right to reject spurious, simplistic explanations, and it's true that blaming austerity and cuts leaves us no better off in terms of an understanding.

The question is, re the last paragraph, how to kickstart that process of wrestling control of community affairs away from those in authority that are ever more keen to intervene. The very fact someone raises this as a question is a good start

Alastair Donald, Future Cities Project