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 [[File:Austin-Williams.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Austin Williams]] at an [[LM network]] event]]
 [[File:Feldman and Marks on global warming.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Stanley Feldman]] and [[Vincent Marks]], ''Global Warming and other Bollocks: the truth about all those science scare stories'', 2009, including a chapter by [[Austin Williams]] of the [[LM network]]]]
-[[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]],  participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>
+[[Austin Williams]] is an architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]],  participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>
 [[File:Enemies-of-Progress.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Austin Williams]], ''Enemies of Progress'', 2008. In the ''Guardian'', John Vidal and David Adam wrote "when you see the words 'progress' or 'reason' in a book title, you can bet it has been written by an extreme libertarian arguing for the right to pollute, or an ageing [[Living Marxism]] cell member - or both."<ref name="Vidal">John Vidal and David Adam, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/21/ecosoundings "Seeing red over green"], ''The Guardian'' May 21, 2008.</ref>]]
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 ===External resources===
-* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/austin-williams/9/ba1/5a "Austin Williams"], ''LinkedIn'', accessed July 2009.
+*[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/austin-williams/9/ba1/5a "Austin Williams"], ''LinkedIn'', accessed July 2009.
 *Profile, "[http://www.mantownhuman.org/who.html Austin Williams]", ManTownHuman website, accessed 29 Dec 2010
 ===External articles===

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 De Beauvoir, London N1 5TP <br>
 Phone: +44 (0)7957 534 909  <br>
-Website: http://www.futurecities.org.uk
+*Website: [http://www.futurecities.org.uk futurecities]
 ===External resources===

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 [[File:Enemies-of-Progress.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Austin Williams]], ''Enemies of Progress'', 2008. In the ''Guardian'', John Vidal and David Adam wrote "when you see the words 'progress' or 'reason' in a book title, you can bet it has been written by an extreme libertarian arguing for the right to pollute, or an ageing [[Living Marxism]] cell member - or both."<ref name="Vidal">John Vidal and David Adam, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/21/ecosoundings "Seeing red over green"], ''The Guardian'' May 21, 2008.</ref>]]
-Between 2002 and 2007 he was a regular contributor to [[Spiked online]].<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/search/results/d8d129cfd8f4556122e01ac6c1ca45a050/ "Search results: Austin Williams"], Spiked Online, accessed July 2009.</ref>
+Between 2002 and 2010 he was a regular contributor to [[Spiked online]].<ref>[hhttp://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/search/results/3ca9bb36e3fe29a717586f9718de600d/ "Search results: Austin Williams"], Spiked Online, accessed 8 March 2011.</ref>
 He was the director of [[Transport Research Group]].<ref>[http://www.transportresearch.org.uk/ "At a glance"], The Future Cities Project, accessed July 2009. (Scroll down to the "Battle of Ideas" section").</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/3675/ "Reducing cities to a statistical sprawl"], ''Spiked Online'', July 26, 2007.</ref> A 2007 biographical note states that he was "editor of ''Shortcuts: essential guides for building designers''" and a "regular columnist in the ''Daily Telegraph'' Motoring section and a Visiting Tutor at the Vehicle Design department of the Royal College of Art."<ref>[http://nysalon.org/salonoverviews/archives/public-events/the-human-footprint/ "The Human Footprint – has civilization gone too far?"], ''The NY Salon'', February 13, 2007.</ref>

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 Between 2002 and 2007 he was a regular contributor to [[Spiked online]].<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/search/results/d8d129cfd8f4556122e01ac6c1ca45a050/ "Search results: Austin Williams"], Spiked Online, accessed July 2009.</ref>
-He was the director of [[Transport Research Group]]<ref>[http://www.transportresearch.org.uk/ "At a glance"], The Future Cities Project, accessed July 2009. (Scroll down to the "Battle of Ideas" section").</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/3675/ "Reducing cities to a statistical sprawl"], ''Spiked Online'', July 26, 2007.</ref> A 2007 biographical note states that he was "editor of ''Shortcuts: essential guides for building designers''" and a "regular columnist in the ''Daily Telegraph'' Motoring section and a Visiting Tutor at the Vehicle Design department of the Royal College of Art."<ref>[http://nysalon.org/salonoverviews/archives/public-events/the-human-footprint/ "The Human Footprint – has civilization gone too far?"], ''The NY Salon'', February 13, 2007.</ref>
+He was the director of [[Transport Research Group]].<ref>[http://www.transportresearch.org.uk/ "At a glance"], The Future Cities Project, accessed July 2009. (Scroll down to the "Battle of Ideas" section").</ref><ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/3675/ "Reducing cities to a statistical sprawl"], ''Spiked Online'', July 26, 2007.</ref> A 2007 biographical note states that he was "editor of ''Shortcuts: essential guides for building designers''" and a "regular columnist in the ''Daily Telegraph'' Motoring section and a Visiting Tutor at the Vehicle Design department of the Royal College of Art."<ref>[http://nysalon.org/salonoverviews/archives/public-events/the-human-footprint/ "The Human Footprint – has civilization gone too far?"], ''The NY Salon'', February 13, 2007.</ref>
 A 2007 biographical note states that he "also written for a range of publications, including: The Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Educational Supplement; Top Gear, Reason, New Humanist, Blueprint, Building Design, spiked-online, and MJ."<ref>[http://www.intersections07.com/williams.html "Speakers: Austin Williams"], Intersections, October 2007.</ref>
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 ==Climate change sceptic==
-Williams was the organiser, on behalf of the [[Future Cities Project]], of a panel on climate change at the the ''Battle of Ideas'' festival at the at London's Royal College of Art, which was organised by the [[Institute of Ideas]]. "Williams, picked the panel, and he's on it too. The first article on Austin's reading list to accompany the debate mocks "climate change doom-mongers". Like the Government's chief scientist, Sir [[David King]] perhaps? Williams himself adds a sarcastic self-penned piece reviewing a conference on renewable energy," the Press Gazette reported.<ref name="PG">[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=36074&sectioncode=1 "The Battle of Ideas: It’s a twisted old battlefield"], ''Press Gazette'', November 3, 2006.</ref>
+Williams was the organiser, on behalf of the [[Future Cities Project]], of a panel on climate change at the the ''Battle of Ideas'' festival at the London's Royal College of Art, which was organised by the [[Institute of Ideas]]. "Williams, picked the panel, and he's on it too. The first article on Austin's reading list to accompany the debate mocks "climate change doom-mongers". Like the Government's chief scientist, Sir [[David King]] perhaps? Williams himself adds a sarcastic self-penned piece reviewing a conference on renewable energy," the Press Gazette reported.<ref name="PG">[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=36074&sectioncode=1 "The Battle of Ideas: It’s a twisted old battlefield"], ''Press Gazette'', November 3, 2006.</ref>
 ==Critic of sustainability==

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-[[File:Austin-Williams.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Austin williams]] at an [[LM network]] event]]
+[[File:Austin-Williams.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Austin Williams]] at an [[LM network]] event]]
 [[File:Feldman and Marks on global warming.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Stanley Feldman]] and [[Vincent Marks]], ''Global Warming and other Bollocks: the truth about all those science scare stories'', 2009, including a chapter by [[Austin Williams]] of the [[LM network]]]]
 [[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]],  participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>

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+{{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}}{{Template:Climate badge}}
 [[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]],  participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>
 Between 2002 and 2007 he was a regular contributor to [[Spiked online]].<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/search/results/d8d129cfd8f4556122e01ac6c1ca45a050/ "Search results: Austin Williams"], Spiked Online, accessed July 2009.</ref>
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 A promotional description of Williams's book, ''The Enemies of Progress: Dangers of Sustainability'', stated that "this polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing that sustainability, manifested in several guises, represents a pernicious and corrosive doctrine that has survived primarily because there seems to be no alternative to its canon: in effect, its bi-partisan appeal has depressed critical engagement and neutered politics. It is a malign philosophy of misanthropy, low aspirations and restraint. This book argues for a destruction of the mantra of sustainability, removing its unthinking status as orthodoxy, and for the reinstatement of the notions of development, progress, experimentation and ambition in its place." The book features an endorsement by [[Frank Furedi]].<ref name="Enemies"/>
-In the ''Guardian'', John Vidal and David Adam wrote that "when you see the words 'progress' or 'reason' in a book title, you can bet it has been written by an extreme libertarian arguing for the right to pollute, or an ageing [[Living Marxism]] cell member - or both. So it is with ''The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability'', a book by [[Austin Williams]] that argues, very roughly, that planning is bad, all development is good, and sod the lot of you. Judge for yourself how batty it is with this endorsement from former ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' editor [[Dominic Lawson]]: 'A much-needed diagnosis of the bleak anti-human pathology described as environmentalism'."<ref>John Vidal and David Adam, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/21/ecosoundings "Seeing red over green"], ''The Guardian'' May 21, 2008.</ref>
+In the ''Guardian'', John Vidal and David Adam wrote that "when you see the words 'progress' or 'reason' in a book title, you can bet it has been written by an extreme libertarian arguing for the right to pollute, or an ageing [[Living Marxism]] cell member - or both. So it is with ''The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability'', a book by [[Austin Williams]] that argues, very roughly, that planning is bad, all development is good, and sod the lot of you. Judge for yourself how batty it is with this endorsement from former ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' editor [[Dominic Lawson]]: 'A much-needed diagnosis of the bleak anti-human pathology described as environmentalism'."<ref name="Vidal"/>
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	[[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]], participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>		[[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]], participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>

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	[[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]], participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>		[[Austin Williams]] is a trained architect, organiser and writer associated with the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]]. In particular, he has written for [[Living Marxism]], led the [[Future Cities Project]], [[ManTownHuman]], [[Bookshop Barnies]] and the defunct [[Transport Research Group]], participated in [[Audacity]] and in [[Institute of Ideas]] events, spoken at the [[Manchester Salon]] and the [[Battle of Ideas]], adjudicated for [[Debating Matters]], appeared on [[WORLDbytes]] and written for [[Spiked]] <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/author/Austin%20Williams/ Articles by Austin Williams]", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010</ref> and [[Culture Wars]].<ref name="Enemies">[http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/williams_enemies.html "The Enemies of Progress"], Imprint Academic, accessed July 2009.</ref>