Post-War Housing in Liverpool

Bradbury, Ronald

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“…Articles from this period deal with the implementation of urban renewal programs in various cities such as St. Louis's prize-winning Pruitt-Igoe housing development 48 (which later came to symbolize the failures of the International Style), 49 Sheffield's renowned Park Hill project, 50 or Chicago's urban renewal program, which was the subject of an opinion piece by Nathaniel Owings, a co-founder of the architectural practice SOM. 51 (1920s-1930s) Proposals for slum clearance and model housing New York (Adams, 1936;Boyd, 1925;Moses, 1942), Britain (Pevsner, 1943;Reiss, 1936), Edinburgh (Smith, 1989(Smith, , 1994, London (Collcutt, 1921;Evans, 1984;Yelling, 1982Yelling, , 1986, Nottingham (Smith et al, 1986), Singapore (Williams, 1937) National scale (Abercrombie, 1935;Yelling, 1988), Liverpool (Keay, 1935(Keay, , 1938, London (Fry, 1937;Knight, 1936;Parker, 1999) 30 USA: creation of Public Works Administration, FHA and USHA; NYCHA National scale (Aronovici, 1934;Bauer, 1938;Moses, 1945), New York (Broun and Muschenheim, 1935) 31 UK: 1947 Town Planning Act National scale (Childs and Whittle, 1956;King, 1956), Leeds (Benson, 1959) Liverpool (Bradbury, 1952), Sheffield (Womersley, 1955) 32 USA: 1949 Urban Redevelopment Act-concept and implementation…”

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Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals

Mazarro

2022

Journal of Urban History

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Over recent years, the political critique of the characterization of slums has progressively developed within hegemonic urban planning discourse. In planning history, however, the emergence of slums remains associated with the narrative and geographies of underdevelopment in the context of modernization theory. To deconstruct this narrative and thus contribute to the decolonization of planning discourse, this paper undertakes a historiographic analysis of English-language journal publications dealing with different forms of subaltern urbanism. I show how the concept of “slums” has progressively broadened in meaning to encompass an ever-larger array of derogatory concepts, and that the term “slum” is limited to certain geographical hotspots, thereby contributing to geopolitical biases and knowledge gaps. Through the content analysis of publications, I am able to outline a historical periodization of hegemonic planning themes and proposals addressing slums in diverse geographies, along with critical views on their underlying perspectives.

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