The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain

Hasegawa, Junichi

doi:10.1093/tcbh/10.2.137

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“…Those communities needed to be urgently rebuilt as a result of ‘blight and blitz’ (Hasegawa, 1999: 140–1). The residue of too many slums was still disfiguring too many cities, and parts of the country had been devastated by bombs.…”

Section: Town and Country Planningmentioning

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The Sixth Giant? Environmental Policy and the Labour Government, 1945–51

Fitzpatrick

2015

J. Soc. Pol.

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The connections between social and environmental policies have a longer and more fertile history than is often appreciated. Ignoring that history is not just unfortunate in its own terms but may mean that we deprive ourselves of resources that could be useful in the future. Labour displayed an ambivalence toward the natural environment. Land nationalisation had long been an aspiration, but Labour drew back from its more radical ambitions. In policy terms, this gave rise to a dualism. Town and country planning became one of its enduring legacies, but more socialistic, redistributive measures fell by the wayside.

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The Sixth Giant? Environmental Policy and the Labour Government, 1945–51

Fitzpatrick

2015

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…Samuely's review of the Greater London Plan, which argued that 'a more radical policy would have been welcome ' (1945, 324) authorities for the acquisition of land, were perceived as unsatisfactory (Hasegawa, 1992, 5-6;Hasegawa, 1999). As Tichelar described, the 1944 Act in particular was considered by many local authorities as a 'great betrayal' and a 'triumph of the rights of property' (Cited in Essex and Brayshay, 2008, 444).…”

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Abercrombie’s green-wedge vision for London: the County of London Plan 1943 and the Greater London Plan 1944

Oliveira

2015

Town Planning Review

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This paper analyses the role that the green wedges idea played in the main official reconstruction plans for London, namely the County of London Plan 1943 and the Greater London Plan 1944. Green wedges were theorised in the first decade of the twentieth century and discussed in multifaceted ways up to the end of the Second World War. Despite having been prominent in many plans for London, they have been largely overlooked in planning history. This paper argues that green wedges were instrumental in these plans to the formulation of a more modern, sociable, healthier and greener peacetime London.

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“…Junichi hasegawa's work focuses upon the radical and utopian nature of the reconstruction plans, highlighting their possibilities for engendering greater social equity in what was a highly class-riven society and the broader political and economic contexts that facilitated their compilation. 23 on the other hand, nick tiratsoo suggests that most planners involved in the reconstruction plans of this period were, at best, mild reformers, with tightly constricted powers to enact radical modernist designs or socialist schemes, merely one set of actors locked in a complex political mesh. 24 Many had been educated in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the pervasive Garden city mentality, with its paternalistic style of population management, still carried considerable weight in the profession.…”

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Mapping the Imagined Future: The Roles of Visual Representation in the 1945 City of Manchester Plan

Perkins¹,

Dodge²

2012

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

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Visual representations have often played a crucial role in imagining future urban forms. In the aftermath of the Second World War, a noteworthy new genre of urban plan was published in Britain, most deploying seductively optimistic illustrations of ways forward not only for the reconstruction of bomb-damaged towns and cities but also for places left largely undamaged. Visual representations have often played a crucial role in imagining future urban forms. In the aftermath of the Second World War, a noteworthy new genre of urban plan was published in Britain, most deploying seductively optimistic illustrations of ways forward not only for the reconstruction of bomb-damaged towns and cities but also for places left largely undamaged. This paper assesses the contribution of visual elements in this,process with a detailed case study of the maps, statistical charts, architectural drawings and photographs enrolled into the 1945 City of Manchester Plan. The cultural production of these visual representations is evaluated. Our analysis interprets the form, symbology and active work of different imagery in the process of reimagining Manchester, but also assesses the role of these images as markers of a particular moment in the cultural economy of the city. This analysis is carried out in relation to the ethos of the Plan as a whole.

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The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain

Cited by 19 publications

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The Sixth Giant? Environmental Policy and the Labour Government, 1945–51

The Sixth Giant? Environmental Policy and the Labour Government, 1945–51

Abercrombie’s green-wedge vision for London: the County of London Plan 1943 and the Greater London Plan 1944

Mapping the Imagined Future: The Roles of Visual Representation in the 1945 City of Manchester Plan

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