Perhaps it was just me, but the 1970s seemed a decade of
contradictory ideas, with style vying with substance in a confusing tangle. As
a student of architecture this was made manifest in a curriculum which tried to
combine the grandiose, the mechanistic, the mass-produced, and the modest &
hand-knitted, in an incoherent stew with occasional highlights of excellence,
such as E F Schumacher’s prophetic book.
Thirty five years later, the Occupy protests are re-setting the
agenda of challenging global and corporate capitalism in all its de-humanising
forms, and it is good to see the book in the spotlight again (ref). Maybe this
time more people will listen.
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