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I'd love to know the demographic of the complaining Architects in this commentary. My guess is you're a bit old and/or out of the loop. It's depressing and worryingly narrow-minded that in this contemporary age you still believe in categorising those who have a right to strive and work hard for innovation and progress in the built environment and those who do not. Architects shamelessly envision nasty new bits of city every day. They have ARB subscriptions but they don't all have integrity and they don't make places better. What is more important? Meanwhile, for example, city design programme in LSE is being taught by social and political scientists, to new generations of architects and non-architects who are very successfully harnessing the power of multi-disciplinary approaches to design and problem solving in the built environment. If there was no demand for multi-disciplinary thinking in architecture, surely the AOC wouldn't be so successful.