Stephen J. Collier
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691148304
- eISBN:
- 9781400840427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691148304.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines Soviet developments in the industrial city of Rodniki. Development in Rodniki was delayed even longer than in Belaya Kalitva. A city plan was not approved until the late 1960s; ...
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This chapter examines Soviet developments in the industrial city of Rodniki. Development in Rodniki was delayed even longer than in Belaya Kalitva. A city plan was not approved until the late 1960s; and a 1987 review of the plan's implementation, noting works that were left incomplete and imbalances in urban development, concluded that Rodniki's general plan had “not been fulfilled.” However, it also found that “[o]verall construction took place in accordance with [the general plan's] proposals” and did not violate planning decisions. The chapter then concludes that, at least in small cities, to the extent that urban modernity took shape, it conformed to the norms and forms of city-building.Less
This chapter examines Soviet developments in the industrial city of Rodniki. Development in Rodniki was delayed even longer than in Belaya Kalitva. A city plan was not approved until the late 1960s; and a 1987 review of the plan's implementation, noting works that were left incomplete and imbalances in urban development, concluded that Rodniki's general plan had “not been fulfilled.” However, it also found that “[o]verall construction took place in accordance with [the general plan's] proposals” and did not violate planning decisions. The chapter then concludes that, at least in small cities, to the extent that urban modernity took shape, it conformed to the norms and forms of city-building.
Terryl C. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195167115
- eISBN:
- 9780199785599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167115.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The first Mormon structure was the Kirtland Temple, followed by the grander Nauvoo Temple. In Utah, Mormons built ward houses (often called chapels), tabernacles, and more temples. Their architecture ...
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The first Mormon structure was the Kirtland Temple, followed by the grander Nauvoo Temple. In Utah, Mormons built ward houses (often called chapels), tabernacles, and more temples. Their architecture is eclectic and derivative. Functional and pragmatic are the norm. They also pioneered city planning and built a literal Zion.Less
The first Mormon structure was the Kirtland Temple, followed by the grander Nauvoo Temple. In Utah, Mormons built ward houses (often called chapels), tabernacles, and more temples. Their architecture is eclectic and derivative. Functional and pragmatic are the norm. They also pioneered city planning and built a literal Zion.
JOHN DAVIS
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199260201
- eISBN:
- 9780191717352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199260201.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Economic History
Historians' preoccupation with planning as intellectual history threatens to obscure the process by which planners came into contact with ‘real’ societies, and the kind of negotiation entailed when ...
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Historians' preoccupation with planning as intellectual history threatens to obscure the process by which planners came into contact with ‘real’ societies, and the kind of negotiation entailed when planning departments sought to apply their projects to communities other than those in new towns or blitzed cities. This chapter seeks to capture this moment of engagement with civil society through a case study of a critical moment in the social rejection of top-down planning in Britain: the defeat of the Greater London Development Plan in the 1960s and 1970s.Less
Historians' preoccupation with planning as intellectual history threatens to obscure the process by which planners came into contact with ‘real’ societies, and the kind of negotiation entailed when planning departments sought to apply their projects to communities other than those in new towns or blitzed cities. This chapter seeks to capture this moment of engagement with civil society through a case study of a critical moment in the social rejection of top-down planning in Britain: the defeat of the Greater London Development Plan in the 1960s and 1970s.
James Greenhalgh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526114143
- eISBN:
- 9781526136060
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526114143.003.0002
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This chapter examines the origins of the post-war Plans as a means to interrogate a number of historical stereotypes about Britain after the Second World War. In 1945 Hull and Manchester, in common ...
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This chapter examines the origins of the post-war Plans as a means to interrogate a number of historical stereotypes about Britain after the Second World War. In 1945 Hull and Manchester, in common with many other British towns and cities, produced comprehensive, detailed redevelopment plans. These Plans were a spectacular mix of maps, representations of modern architecture and ambitious cityscapes that sit, sometimes uneasily, alongside detailed tables, text and photographs. Initially examining continuities between the inter- and post-war plans, the chapter emphasises the importance of the Plans in local governments’ attempts to express long-held desires to control and shape the city. I argue that the Plans evidence an attempt to mould the future shape and idea of the modern city through imaginative use of urban fantasy. Images of modernism, I argue, were not presented as a realisable architectural aim, but as a way of mediating between the present and an indistinct, but fundamentally better future. I suggest flawed interpretations of the visual materials contained in the Plans are responsible for an over-emphasis on the influence of radical modernism in post-war Britain.Less
This chapter examines the origins of the post-war Plans as a means to interrogate a number of historical stereotypes about Britain after the Second World War. In 1945 Hull and Manchester, in common with many other British towns and cities, produced comprehensive, detailed redevelopment plans. These Plans were a spectacular mix of maps, representations of modern architecture and ambitious cityscapes that sit, sometimes uneasily, alongside detailed tables, text and photographs. Initially examining continuities between the inter- and post-war plans, the chapter emphasises the importance of the Plans in local governments’ attempts to express long-held desires to control and shape the city. I argue that the Plans evidence an attempt to mould the future shape and idea of the modern city through imaginative use of urban fantasy. Images of modernism, I argue, were not presented as a realisable architectural aim, but as a way of mediating between the present and an indistinct, but fundamentally better future. I suggest flawed interpretations of the visual materials contained in the Plans are responsible for an over-emphasis on the influence of radical modernism in post-war Britain.
Robert A. Beauregard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226297255
- eISBN:
- 9780226297422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226297422.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter explores the various ways in which time appears in planning practice, particularly as it involves differentiating between a problematic present and a desired future and the centrality of ...
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This chapter explores the various ways in which time appears in planning practice, particularly as it involves differentiating between a problematic present and a desired future and the centrality of different temporal sequences to the development process. At the core of the chapter is a discussion of how the stabilization of relationships serves to define time. The argument is illustrated with a discussion of the history of city planning in New York City.Less
This chapter explores the various ways in which time appears in planning practice, particularly as it involves differentiating between a problematic present and a desired future and the centrality of different temporal sequences to the development process. At the core of the chapter is a discussion of how the stabilization of relationships serves to define time. The argument is illustrated with a discussion of the history of city planning in New York City.
Robert A. Beauregard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226297255
- eISBN:
- 9780226297422
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226297422.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and ...
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City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and consultants’ reports. The material world of planning is acknowledged but insufficiently theorized. In Planning Matter, Robert Beauregard offers a new materialist perspective on planning practice that relies heavily on actor-network theory and science and technology studies to reveal the many ways in which the non-human things of the world mediate what planners say and do. In order to emphasize the importance of planners constantly imagining themselves “in the world,” the argument is illustrated with numerous empirical examples from planning practice in the United States. The result is a theoretical approach that recognizes the vibrancy of non-human matter and the fact that planners neither act alone nor solely with other human beings.Less
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and consultants’ reports. The material world of planning is acknowledged but insufficiently theorized. In Planning Matter, Robert Beauregard offers a new materialist perspective on planning practice that relies heavily on actor-network theory and science and technology studies to reveal the many ways in which the non-human things of the world mediate what planners say and do. In order to emphasize the importance of planners constantly imagining themselves “in the world,” the argument is illustrated with numerous empirical examples from planning practice in the United States. The result is a theoretical approach that recognizes the vibrancy of non-human matter and the fact that planners neither act alone nor solely with other human beings.
Peter Newman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426673
- eISBN:
- 9781447305545
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426673.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter explores London's status as a global city and the impact of this on public policy. It examines current policy priorities, in particular for planning and economic development, based on ...
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This chapter explores London's status as a global city and the impact of this on public policy. It examines current policy priorities, in particular for planning and economic development, based on analysis of a series of planning strategies for London and its wider regional context and reform of governance institutions, including the Mayor and the London Assembly. The chapter examines the potential impacts of the global economic crisis, including any changes in the regulation of financial services, on the wider planning of a global city, and the importance of government and strategic planning policies as well as market trends. It argues that the future competitiveness of London as a global city is the main force behind successive plans for the capital. London-wide government has been reformed over the past 30 years and we should anticipate further future changes in the relationships between national government, the London Boroughs, and London-wide institutions.Less
This chapter explores London's status as a global city and the impact of this on public policy. It examines current policy priorities, in particular for planning and economic development, based on analysis of a series of planning strategies for London and its wider regional context and reform of governance institutions, including the Mayor and the London Assembly. The chapter examines the potential impacts of the global economic crisis, including any changes in the regulation of financial services, on the wider planning of a global city, and the importance of government and strategic planning policies as well as market trends. It argues that the future competitiveness of London as a global city is the main force behind successive plans for the capital. London-wide government has been reformed over the past 30 years and we should anticipate further future changes in the relationships between national government, the London Boroughs, and London-wide institutions.
Paul Stangl
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781503603202
- eISBN:
- 9781503605503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503603202.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Between 1945 and 1949 a series of modernist plans were developed for Berlin. In this time of political turmoil, planners and politicians projected a broad range of meanings onto the plans. After the ...
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Between 1945 and 1949 a series of modernist plans were developed for Berlin. In this time of political turmoil, planners and politicians projected a broad range of meanings onto the plans. After the founding of the East German state, Lothar Bolz orchestrated the adoption of socialist realism as state policy, requiring a return to traditional urban design. This theory included a range of tenets guiding planning, but Walter Ulbricht intervened to assure that planning would be dominated by a concern for parade routes leading to an immense square in the city center. In response to West Berlin’s international building exhibition, the German Democratic Republic held their own design competition for a “socialist” city center in 1958. The recent introduction of industrialized building, along with uncertainty and debate over the nature of “socialist” architecture, was evident in designs with a range of influences, including international modernism, midcentury modernism, and socialist realism.Less
Between 1945 and 1949 a series of modernist plans were developed for Berlin. In this time of political turmoil, planners and politicians projected a broad range of meanings onto the plans. After the founding of the East German state, Lothar Bolz orchestrated the adoption of socialist realism as state policy, requiring a return to traditional urban design. This theory included a range of tenets guiding planning, but Walter Ulbricht intervened to assure that planning would be dominated by a concern for parade routes leading to an immense square in the city center. In response to West Berlin’s international building exhibition, the German Democratic Republic held their own design competition for a “socialist” city center in 1958. The recent introduction of industrialized building, along with uncertainty and debate over the nature of “socialist” architecture, was evident in designs with a range of influences, including international modernism, midcentury modernism, and socialist realism.
Joseph B. Raskin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253692
- eISBN:
- 9780823261109
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253692.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit ...
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The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit system did not expand and the people who played a role in the planning process. Emphasis is given to several proposes lines in particular and the impact that those plans had on growth and development of the areas that they would have served. Maps diagramming some of these lines are included. The Routes Not Taken also looks at how the subway and rail system has actually contracted in size, rather than expanded over the past 75 years through the elimination of a number of elevated lines without the construction of underground lines to replace them and the closure of other lines.Less
The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit system did not expand and the people who played a role in the planning process. Emphasis is given to several proposes lines in particular and the impact that those plans had on growth and development of the areas that they would have served. Maps diagramming some of these lines are included. The Routes Not Taken also looks at how the subway and rail system has actually contracted in size, rather than expanded over the past 75 years through the elimination of a number of elevated lines without the construction of underground lines to replace them and the closure of other lines.
Karl F. Seidman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199945511
- eISBN:
- 9780199333189
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945511.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two ...
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This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two introductory chapters address Katrina’s impact and the planning and public-sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Three chapters present and analyze rebuilding narratives for six New Orleans neighborhoods. In the heavily flooded Broadmoor and Village de L’Est neighborhoods, residents coalesced around communitywide initiatives, one through a neighborhood association and the second under church leadership, to help homeowners return and restore housing, get key public facilities and businesses rebuilt and create new civic capacity. Another chapter shows how differing socioeconomic conditions, geography, government policies and neighborhood capacity and responses combined to create varied recovery trajectories across four adjacent neighborhoods in the center of the city. A concluding chapter argues that grassroots and neighborhood scale initiatives can make important contributions to city recovery in four areas: repopulation, restoring “complete neighborhoods” with key services and amenities, rebuilding parts of the small business economy and enhancing recovery capacity. It also calls for more balanced investment and policies to rebuild rental housing, deliberate collaboration with community-based organizations to undertake and implement recovery plans, and changes to federal disaster recovery policies.Less
This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two introductory chapters address Katrina’s impact and the planning and public-sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Three chapters present and analyze rebuilding narratives for six New Orleans neighborhoods. In the heavily flooded Broadmoor and Village de L’Est neighborhoods, residents coalesced around communitywide initiatives, one through a neighborhood association and the second under church leadership, to help homeowners return and restore housing, get key public facilities and businesses rebuilt and create new civic capacity. Another chapter shows how differing socioeconomic conditions, geography, government policies and neighborhood capacity and responses combined to create varied recovery trajectories across four adjacent neighborhoods in the center of the city. A concluding chapter argues that grassroots and neighborhood scale initiatives can make important contributions to city recovery in four areas: repopulation, restoring “complete neighborhoods” with key services and amenities, rebuilding parts of the small business economy and enhancing recovery capacity. It also calls for more balanced investment and policies to rebuild rental housing, deliberate collaboration with community-based organizations to undertake and implement recovery plans, and changes to federal disaster recovery policies.
