by DEREK RIGBY CHILDS
Town planning consultant
There are essentially two schools of thought on regional planning: one in favour of accepting the effects of urban drift in Britain on a strategic scale; the other in favour of ' counterdrift,' radical measures to establish a sound balance between north and south. Derek Rigby Childs is the begetter of the counterdrift theory which he first published three years ago in the Architects' Journal. He outlines a possible anatomy for the Government's proposed economic regions.