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Planned Housing as a Social Trap

Planned Housing as a Social Trap Viewpoint ALICE COLEMAN '... men or organisations or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they can see no easy way to back out of. ..' (J. Platt, 'Social Traps', 1973)1 SOCIAL TRAP as conceived by Platt seems tailor-made to fit the plight of British housing after 40 years of official control. Our massive housing machine was switched on to achieve five laudable objectives, but in practice it has created five great failures which are proving extremely difficult to switch off. Solutions are not at all obvious. Many people are calling forA even more of the well-intentioned government intervention that unleashed the problems in the first place, but this is hardly likely to guarantee success. We should not pursue what Roger James has called 'solutioneering' for its own sake,2 but go back to the problems for a harder, clearer analysis and a more open-minded search for more effective approaches. The purpose of this paper is to outline four of the problems and report more fully on the fifth, which has been the subject of a large research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present Taylor & Francis

Planned Housing as a Social Trap

Planned Housing as a Social Trap


Abstract

Viewpoint ALICE COLEMAN '... men or organisations or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they can see no easy way to back out of. ..' (J. Platt, 'Social Traps', 1973)1 SOCIAL TRAP as conceived by Platt seems tailor-made to fit the plight of British housing after 40 years of official control. Our massive housing machine was switched on to achieve five laudable objectives, but in practice it has created five great failures which are proving extremely difficult to switch off. Solutions are not at all obvious. Many people are calling forA even more of the well-intentioned government intervention that unleashed the problems in the first place, but this is hardly likely to guarantee success. We should not pursue what Roger James has called 'solutioneering' for its own sake,2 but go back to the problems for a harder, clearer analysis and a more open-minded search for more effective approaches. The purpose of this paper is to outline four of the problems and report more fully on the fifth, which has been the subject of a large research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 1986 Maney Publishing
ISSN
1749-6322
eISSN
0305-8034
DOI
10.1179/ldn.1986.12.2.172
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Abstract

Viewpoint ALICE COLEMAN '... men or organisations or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they can see no easy way to back out of. ..' (J. Platt, 'Social Traps', 1973)1 SOCIAL TRAP as conceived by Platt seems tailor-made to fit the plight of British housing after 40 years of official control. Our massive housing machine was switched on to achieve five laudable objectives, but in practice it has created five great failures which are proving extremely difficult to switch off. Solutions are not at all obvious. Many people are calling forA even more of the well-intentioned government intervention that unleashed the problems in the first place, but this is hardly likely to guarantee success. We should not pursue what Roger James has called 'solutioneering' for its own sake,2 but go back to the problems for a harder, clearer analysis and a more open-minded search for more effective approaches. The purpose of this paper is to outline four of the problems and report more fully on the fifth, which has been the subject of a large research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree

Journal

The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and PresentTaylor & Francis

Published: Nov 1, 1986

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