ABSTRACT
During and immediately after the Second World War, about 200 “advisory” or “outline” reconstruction plans were formulated for a wide variety of British towns and cities. Some cities had been badly bomb-damaged, others were little damaged or even undamaged. Some plans were written by the most eminent consultants, others by the professional officers or elected councilors of individual local authorities, and a few by local organizations and residents. This chapter uses some of the plans produced, particularly for the Midlands, to review how the future town was being conceived and re-shaped and the processes and actors engaged in this massive urban restructuring; it focuses, however, on the preparation, not on the implementation, of plans. 1
