Man-Made Future
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Man-Made Future

Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

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  2. English
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Man-Made Future

Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
9781134325184
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Man-Made Future
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Illustration credits
  6. Preface
  7. Contributors
  8. Chapter 1: 1947 and all that: Why has the Act lasted so long?
  9. Chapter 2: Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness
  10. Chapter 3: Surveying and comprehensive planning: The ‘co-ordination of knowledge’ in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock
  11. Chapter 4: Everywhere at any time: Post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future
  12. Chapter 5: Perceptions in the conception of the Modernist urban environment: Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
  13. Chapter 6: Selling the future city: Images in UK post-war reconstruction plans
  14. Chapter 7: Paper dream city/ modern monument: Donald Gibson and Coventry
  15. Chapter 8: Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain: Some everyday experiences of the rebuilding of Coventry, 1944-62
  16. Chapter 9: ‘Into the world of conscious expression’: Modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association, 1933-39
  17. Chapter 10: PLAN: A student journal of ambition and anxiety
  18. Chapter 11: ‘Destroy all humans!’
  19. Chapter 12: The English university of the 1960s: Built community, model universe
  20. Chapter 13: The tall barracks artistically reconsidered: Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks and the total environment of modern military life