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Yes, the programme does have an axe to grind, and it is all the better for it. The episode on Deptford High Street was particularly vivid - and very emotional.

I'm fed up of contemporary apologists for modernist housing and planning strategies. Policies, that displaced communities, and ensured that no future community could thrive in the places that were left.

Some modernist buildings are lovely - yes - but modernist planning was a disaster. It's about time that the architectural profession admitted as much, and came up with alternative ways of mending broken bits of city.

It seems to me that most new inner-city residential masterplans are still based on the modernist model: tall buildings floating in overly large tracts of public realm, and few streets. The only difference between these new developments and those of the post-war period, is that they have been designed for profit, rather than out of progressive social policy.