ABSTRACT
Regardless of the significance of the awkward intraprofessional relations discussed in Chapter 3, their overall importance was undoubtedly secondary to the more serious question of interprofessional rivalries. This chapter, which has three sections, deals with the complex and sometimes fraught relationships between architecture and the professions that its members worked alongside in the business of transforming cities in the postwar period. The first section concerns the building team. It traces the way that traditional and accepted divisions of labour were eroded and recast by technological change, with industrialised building methods often serving to detach the architect from direct input into construction of public housing – prima facie, a key arena for developing and judging the practice of modernism. The second section of the chapter deals with the interprofessional tussles between planners and engineers over the question of road planning, providing historical
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draws on the experience of three provincial cities (Newcastle upon Tyne, Birmingham and Sheffield) to analyse the territorial disputes that broke out and the manner of their resolution. The fact that architects seldom won these disputes frequently served to limit the contribution that they made at the wider urban scale.
