ABSTRACT
This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning.
Each essay is grounded in original archival research and sheds new light on this critical era in the development of modern town planning. This collection is a valuable resource for architectural, social and urban historians, as well as students and researchers offering new insights into the development of the mid-twentieth century city.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 3|21 pages
Surveying and comprehensive planning
The ‘co-ordination of knowledge’
1
in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock
chapter Chapter 4|19 pages
Everywhere at any time
Post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future
chapter Chapter 5|21 pages
Perceptions in the conception of the Modernist urban environment
Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain
Some everyday experiences of the rebuilding of Coventry, 1944–62
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
‘Into the world of conscious expression’ 1
Modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association, 1933–39
chapter Chapter 13|23 pages
The tall barracks artistically reconsidered 1
Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks and the total environment of modern military life
