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John
F.C. Turner
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Born
in London in 1927,I was schooled in England and trained as an
architect. I have worked mainly in the field of housing. Reoriented
by working with self-managing home and neighbourhood builders
in Peru (1957 -65), I have learnt that what matters in housing
are the relationships between people, activity and place. Before
leaving South America, I prepared a publication and the script
of a documentary film showing how much people can do than can
be done for them, with so much less when free to decide and act
for themselves. Opportunities followed to observe and interpret
the same facts in other contexts, to write at Joint Center for
Urban Studies in Cambridge, Mass, and then teach at MIT (1965-73),
subsequently in London at the Architectural Association and the
Development Planning Unit, University College (1974-83). Between
1984 and 1988, my partner Beth and I tried to set up a "tools
for community building" service; this failed but led to
the preparation of Habitat International Coalition¹s project
to the UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, 1987.
In 1989 we moved to Hastings, a South Coast town, where I volunteered
help with what has become the Hastings (local development) Trust.
The Trust now hosts Tools for Community Regeneration, which is
being piloted locally as a precedent for adaptation to other
contexts.
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