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The article highlights an area of debate in need of more attention but I agree with the 2 previous comments. The questions posed are straight from a 6th form debate circa 1985. Hatherley raises interesting issues but takes such a reactionary view of what capitalism necessarily means that he boxes himself into a very uninteresting corner. 'What can, or should, an architectural movement for an anti-capitalist city look like?' Is this a serious question? This concept of having to be for or against capitalism is what crippled the British left for decades. Look at how the German left has largely grown up and adopted far more sophisticated views.