In a response to the suggestion that poorly-designed architecture played a role in the London riots, Dreher invokes Prince Charles's Harmony:
With architecture and urban planning, Charles contends that there are organic patterns to design that recur across civilizations, and that emerge out of deep and long human experience. … “We make our buildings,” said Winston Churchill, “and afterwards, they make us.” House the poor in buildings that concretize spiritual chaos, buildings that are impossible to love, and you shouldn’t be surprised that what emerges from human beings formed by such inhuman structures is … chaos.
The Dish 