Abstract
This chapter addresses some thirties architectural protest movements, controversies over bomb shelters, and the impact of debates on urbanism, on the eve of World War II as well as into the war’s aftermath. This chapter will emphasize the fact that vanguard ideas of the thirties influenced the postwar period. The Architects’ and Technicians’ Organization (ATO) and Berthold Lubetkin’s designs for ARPs (Air Raid Precautions) show his disgust with the existing progressive architectural climate in England and also start to bring into high relief discussions about town planning that will drive London’s reconstruction after the war. The chapter will also address the 1946 New Towns Act as a utopian impulse and as a connecting thread between pre- and postwar ideals.
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