PLANNING THE URBAN FUTURE IN 1960s BRITAIN

Ortolano, Guy

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“…In the past, places of religious and worshipping practices as well as residences of local community leaders have been commonly associated with the genesis of a township or traditional settlements (Lewandowski, 1975;Harun & Jalil, 2012;Abidin, Shahminan & Ibrahim, 2017). Later in the 19 th Century, concentration of populations and settlements shifted to places which carried out economic activities (Lockard, 1974;Ortolano, 2011). Formation of small towns then became more rampant after the influx of Chinese immigrants into the Malay Peninsula, catalysed by the Chinese merchants who actively constructed business premises and shophouses to cater their economic agenda (Lockard, 1974).…”

Section: Early Town Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early Town Planning System of Small Towns in Perak

Mamat¹,

Aziz²

2018

PMJ

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The township planning in Perak was affected post-signing of the Pangkor Treaty in 1874, as the state became the first state in Malaysian Peninsula intervened by the British. Introduction of grid system by the British has apparently affected the early layout of major cities such as Ipoh, Taiping, Kuala Lumpur, George Town and Singapore. This study attempts to investigate the theory of town planning during the British era after noticing a knowledge gap in regard to early town planning system of small towns in Perak. Based on purposive sampling using varying topographies as the criterion of site selection, 10 out of 20 small towns in Perak were selected for data collection. The small towns were Kuala Kurau, Klian Intan, Bagan Datoh, Lumut, Parit, Tanjung Rambutan, Pusing, Sungkai, Padang Rengas and Lenggong. Besides measured drawings, interviews were conducted with the locals and historical manuscripts of the research locale were also revisited. Based on comparative analysis, the study found that topographical factor was insignificant in influencing the early layout of small towns in Perak since linear system was used at different topographical background (riverside, coastal, hilly terrain and flatland areas). Moreover, location factor was found to be significant in terms of influencing the arrangement of early shophouse buildings into rows, which influenced the early layout of small towns in Perak.

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Section: Early Town Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early Town Planning System of Small Towns in Perak

Mamat¹,

Aziz²

2018

PMJ

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“…This ‘nationalist urbanism’ was based on not only practical experience but also on national imaginaries of Britain and its expertise (Ortolano , 501; Larner and Laurie ).…”

Section: Post‐colonial Careeringmentioning

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Post‐colonial careering and urban policy mobility: between Britain and Nigeria, 1945–1990

Craggs¹,

Neate

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper sets out the value of the concept of 'careering' to understanding the global mobility of urban policy across historical and contemporary contexts. Through a case study of one colonial and post-colonial career in urban development, we demonstrate the material and ideological connections between late colonial development in Nigeria, British reconstruction and international consultancy. Empirically, the paper provides novel postcolonial perspectives on Britain's post-Second World War reconstruction spanning the mid-to late 20th century, globalising the geographies of the British new town. Conceptually, the paper argues that careering provides a valuable tool for progressing the study of urban expertise and its mobility in four ways. First, it provides a tool for connecting geographically distant urban development projects. Second, careering allows us to explore intersections between urban development policies and geopolitical transformations. Third, careering allows us to see the impact of ideas, skills, experiences, affiliations and contacts formed at different stages of a career on later professional practice, slowing down and lengthening out our understandings of the processes though which urban policy is made mobile. Fourth, careering as a method demonstrates the continued value of biographical approaches to urban policy mobility, highlighting in particular professional lives worked with colleagues and contacts rather than in isolation, and foregrounding the everyday embodied nature of urban expertise. The article concludes by suggesting such approaches could be productive for the writing of new post-colonial histories of geography and its allied disciplines.

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“…99 The expansion of office work, health care, and financial services provoked concern, while a rising birthrate and Commonwealth immigration contributed to the government's belated recognition that new building to house and cater to the growing populace was urgently required. 100 …”

Section: Disillusion With the Slow Pace Of Changementioning

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Phoenix Rising: Working-Class Life and Urban Reconstruction, c. 1945–1967

Todd¹

2015

J. Br. Stud.

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Between 1945 and1967, England's town and city centers were reconstructed. This article argues that this process of civic redevelopment transformed working-class people's experience of urban life. Frequently represented as a social problem or simply ignored by prewar planning and political rhetoric on civic participation, working-class people were treated as vital to civic life in postwar England. This change had profound implications for people's experience of civic life and for class identity. However, historians of urban change have focused on planners and politicians, while the few histories of postwar working-class life that exist concentrate on selfhood, home, and neighborhood life. Drawing on personal testimonies, press reports, and planning documents this paper argues that working-class people were active agents of change in England's civic centers. Moreover, the experience of civic reconstruction encouraged the development of a sense of entitlement for a more secure and fuller life than earlier generations had experienced. The rebuilding of the civic centers was widely recognized as an achievement of ordinary working-class people, and the rebuilt centers were understood as places that should and could provide for their needs.Selina Todd is associate professor of modern British history at the University of Oxford and fellow and vice principal of St. Hilda's College, Oxford. The author is grateful to Simon Gunn for the invitation to present an earlier version of this paper at "The Transformation of Urban Britain since 1945," a conference at the University of Leicester in 2013, and to Professor Gunn and other conference participants for their helpful comments.

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PLANNING THE URBAN FUTURE IN 1960s BRITAIN

Cited by 20 publications

References 16 publications

Early Town Planning System of Small Towns in Perak

Early Town Planning System of Small Towns in Perak

Post‐colonial careering and urban policy mobility: between Britain and Nigeria, 1945–1990

Phoenix Rising: Working-Class Life and Urban Reconstruction, c. 1945–1967

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