increasingly vocifcrons. albeit from the viewpoint of
residents rather than architects, since 1961 when Jane Jacobs published her Death and Life of Great American
Cities, a passionate appeal for a return to traditional urban
life with its social and occupational diversity, streets as
places of human interaction and a mixture of old and new
buildings. Architecture. much more clearly and consist-
ently than painting and sculpture, had displayed the
modern movement's high-minded austerity and self-
abnegation and it now invited relaxation with hedonistle 'impurities'. And it was in architecture that the current
situation was first polarized as Modernism and Post
Modernism.