Recession offers the chance to rethink our city planning

By Anna Minton Anna Minton Anna Minton is the author of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City, published by Penguin 2009-09-08T00:00:00

Tale of two cities: At Liverpool One (left) streets are privately owned, while Kensington’s Exhibition Road is to become ‘shared space’ for pedestrians and cars

There has been more construction in Britain in the last decade than at any time since the 1950s and 1960s, when tower blocks, flyovers and arterial roads sliced through cities and communities.

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