USA/USSR: Architecture and War

Anderson, Richard G.

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“…Despite rhetorical perceptions of the Soviet sphere as curtained off by impenetrable iron, recent research traces the influential movement of planners and ideas for multiple periods, both before and after World War II (Brumfield 1990;Chmel'nickij 2005;Shvidkovsky 2007;Anderson 2009;Mëhilli 2012;. The circulation of more abstract ideas and commodities, from Fordism to tractors, may also be of interest to planning historians, given the importance of firms such as the Austin Company and Albert Kahn Associates to urban and regional development during the industrialization campaign of the 1930s and early 1940s (Dodge and Dalrymple 1966;Bailes 1981;Schultz 1990;Cohen 2010).…”

Section: From 1917 Bolshevik Revolution To Post-world War IImentioning

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The Routledge handbook of planning history

Meller

2018

Planning Perspectives

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges.A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.

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Section: From 1917 Bolshevik Revolution To Post-world War IImentioning

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The Routledge handbook of planning history

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2018

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“…4). 18 Externally, each of the African buildings featured ceremonial pailou, or gateways, decorated with abstracted roof ornamentation and decor reminiscent of imperial-era Chinese patterning. Within these halls, guests were greeted with a series of pictorial displays and items of machinery arranged to introduce international audiences to the marvels of socialist Chinese technological innovation and achievement.…”

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Non-Aligned Architecture: China’s Designs on and in Ghana and Guinea, 1955-92

Roskam¹

2015

Architectural History

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The current international attention devoted to contemporary Chinese-financed and constructed development in Africa has tended to obscure complex and multivalent histories of the relationships between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and numerous African nations; and many of these histories date back decades. The ideological origins behind socialist China’s engagement with Africa, and the geopolitical dynamics that continue to propel them forward, trace back to the time of Chairman Mao Zedong, who first coined the term ‘intermediate zone’ in 1946 to position the vast expanse of contested territories and undecided loyalties existing between the ideological poles of the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II. Nine years later (1955), at the first Non-Aligned Movement conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai declared thatever since modern times most of the countries of Asia and Africa in varying degrees have been subjected to colonial plunder and oppression, and have thus been forced to remain in a stagnant state of poverty and backwardness […]. We need to develop our countries independently with no outside interference and in accordance with the will of the people.

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Trans-national promotion of British and American planning practice in the 1940s

Amati

Freestone

2014

Planning Theory & Practice

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The political mandate for postwar reconstruction in the 1940s demanded an ideological consensus for state-directed town planning to regulate urban development. Exhibitions showcasing theoretical and practical proposals proved a popular medium for securing that consensus. Of interest here are two travelling exhibitions spreading the message of modern Anglo-American town planning knowledge globally that were staged by the British Council and the US Office of War Information (OWI). These parallel activities represent an early intersection between planning and the geopolitics of "soft-power", which harnessed information and culture for the purposes of international diplomacy and influence. Developed from Australian case studies, this paper shows how the parallel marketing of American site planning and housing alongside British town and country planning helped make a general case for town planning in the post-war world to be adapted to local contexts.

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USA/USSR: Architecture and War

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The Routledge handbook of planning history

The Routledge handbook of planning history

Non-Aligned Architecture: China’s Designs on and in Ghana and Guinea, 1955-92

Trans-national promotion of British and American planning practice in the 1940s

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