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Paper 5: Sir Herbert Manzoni*

The 'urban environment', by definition, includes everything we see around us, in Lonclon or New York, every part of which has been the subject of some degree of planning by engineers or architects, most of whom have undoubtedly been competent. But 'planning the urban environment' has come to mean a process of co-ordination of all aspects of the production of a future London or New York so that they will be better than those we have at present, and round this myth has grown a completely new discipline with its own vocabulary and processes— a new profession, in fact, whose exponents have the unique responsibility for planning everything but producing nothing.