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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Wartime Planning for Physical Reconstruction in Great Britain
Author: Labor and Industry in Britain
Author: Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities
Author: Catherine FlinnPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350067644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945. How did politicians, civil servants and local authorities manage to produce the cities we live in today? Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities examines the underlying processes and pressures, especially financial and bureaucratic, which shaped postwar urbanism in Britain. Catherine Flinn integrates architectural planning with in-depth economic and political analyses of Britain's blitzed cities for the first time. She examines early reconstruction arrangements, the postwar economic apparatus and the challenges of postwar physical planning across the country, while providing insightful case studies from the cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool. By addressing the ideology versus the reality of reconstruction in postwar Britain, Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities highlights the importance of economic and political factors for understanding the British postwar built environment.
Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85
Author: Mark JacksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317318048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Inventing the Built Environment
Author: Juliana Yat Shun KeiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040047270
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Why and how was the term ‘built environment’ first introduced? Inventing the Built Environment retrieves the origin of this ubiquitous term. The articulation of the ‘built environment,’ Kei demonstrates, coincided with the redefinition of education, research, and professional practices in architecture and town planning in 1960s Britain. Concentrating on the half-decade during which the term permeated the architectural and planning professions, this book recalls a time when the ‘built environment’ was conceived as a part of the British government’s effort in national economic planning. Inventing the Built Environment unpacks the proposal for a Research Council for the Built Environment to mobilise architecture and town planning for political economy. How a relatively small group of architects, planners, politicians, and researchers transposed scientific thoughts from biology, economics, and computation into the ‘built environment’ will be considered, too. Kei highlights the assumptions about and classification of the population that were made when inventing the ‘built environment.’ The architectural and biosocial implications of the making and remaking of this architectural-environmental notion, in Britain and beyond, will be revealed through the works of pre-eminent architect-planners including Richard Llewelyn-Davies and William Holford. At a time when environmental concerns again take the front seat of architectural and planning debates, this book offers, for scholars and students, an alternative lens to reflect on the assumptions and bias that can be embedded in our architectural lexicons.
Planning and Civic Comment
Author: Landscape Architecture
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Consolidated Review of Current Information
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
After the War
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Category : Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Author: Library of Congress