Anglo-American crossroads : urban planning and research in Britain, 1940-2010

Anglo-American crossroads : urban planning and research in Britain, 1940-2010 / Mark Clapson.

The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads e...

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Main Author: Clapson, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Subjects:
City planning > Great Britain.
Urbanization > Great Britain.
City planning
Urbanization
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Timeline; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Direction of Travel; Rationale; The scope and content of Anglo-American Crossroads; Chapter 2: Roads to Reconstruction: The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Special Housing Mission to W; Introduction; The Rockefeller Foundation and the wartime British city; The Special Housing Mission to Great Britain, 1942-46; Networks and themes coalesce; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Green Lights for Understanding: The American Contribution to Urban Research in Britain, ; Introduction.
  • The Institute of Community StudiesThe Centre for Urban Studies; The Centre for Environmental Studies; The Ditchley Foundation; Social scientists and the Rockefeller Foundation; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Through Roads and Dead Ends: American Influences on Post-war Urban Reconstruction; Introduction; The new towns programme; Travelling beyond the neighbourhood unit; Roads and urban renewal; Radburn and the design of post-war new towns and new communities; Roads, Radburn and the re-thinking of residential areas: The initial planning of Milton Keynes; The final passing of the neighbourhood unit.
  • Education and campusesSome conclusions; Chapter 5: Roads to Edge City: Motorization, Milton Keynes and Urbanization After the Era of Recon; Introduction; Edge City; From the detested to the digested city: Learning from Los Angeles; Roads: Similarities and differences between LA and MK; Shopping centres; Linear parks, waterfronts and redways; LA and MK: Some other differences; Conclusion: England's most American city; Chapter 6: The Opposite Direction: British Influences Upon Privately and Publicly Developed New Tow; Introduction; James W. Rouse, Cross Keys and Columbia; Reston, Virginia.
  • The New Communities Development Act of 1968 and the federally assisted new towns in the UnitedThe ending of the federally assisted new communities; Operation Breakthrough; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Avoiding Danger: The USA and the Regeneration of the Inner City in Britain Since 1970; Introduction; The growth of the inner city problem in Britain; The inner city problem in England and the United States of America; Inner city policies during the late 1960s and the 1970s; The significance of failure: The community development projects.

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