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New Urbanists have developed pedestrian-scale communities that reflect the movement’s principles.

Not content with proselytising and demonising architects, he wanted to put his backward-looking ideas into practice, and build an exemplar village. Fortunately for him, among his royal inheritances was a large amount of land around Dorchester, in one of his many Duchies. When the town of 25,000 wanted to expand they agreed to the Prince undertaking a development on his land, rather than the usual practice of the land being sold. The Prince becomes an active property developer.

Among his many distinctions, the ex-prince is a devoted enthusiast – and critic – of the built environment.

Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Inventor of the Future is the first authoritative biography to cover all aspects of Buckminster Fuller’s career. Drawing on meticulous research, dozens of interviews, and thousands of unpublished documents, Alec Nevala-Lee has produced a riveting portrait that transcends the myth of Fuller as an otherworldly generalist. In an era of accelerating change,

The biography “Inventor of the Future,” by Alec Nevala-Lee, explores the dreams and failures of an American optimist.