History Of Town Planning Research Articles

Gordon E. Cherry, The Evolution of British Town Planning: A History of Town Planning in the United Kingdom during the 20th Century and of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 1914–74. Leighton Buzzard: Leonard Hill Books, 1974. xxii + 275 pp. Illus. £6·00.

Gordon E. Cherry, The Evolution of British Town Planning: A History of Town Planning in the United Kingdom during the 20th Century and of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 1914–74. Leighton Buzzard: Leonard Hill Books, 1974. xxii + 275 pp. Illus. £6·00.

City Fathers: The Early History of Town Planning in Britain.

A study of town building in britain up to 1900 surveying historical developments, organized chronologically and thematically: before and after the conquest, edward i, renaissance, grand designs, resorts, transport towns. With 200 illustrations and bibliography.

Colin and Rose Bell: City Fathers: the Early History of Town Planning in Britain. London: Barrie and Rockcliff, 1969. 216 pp., numerous illustrations and plans. 70s. (£3.50).

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Book Review: City Fathers: The Early History of Town Planning in Britain by COLIN and ROSE BELL. London: Barrie & Rockliff, The Cresset Press. 1969. pp. 216. 70/The Modern City: Planning in the 19th Century by FRANÇOISE CHOAY. (Planning and Cities series-General Editor: George R. Collins) London: Studio Vista. 1969. pp. 128. 45/-

Book Review: City Fathers: The Early History of Town Planning in Britain by COLIN and ROSE BELL. London: Barrie & Rockliff, The Cresset Press. 1969. pp. 216. 70/The Modern City: Planning in the 19th Century by FRANÇOISE CHOAY. (Planning and Cities series-General Editor: George R. Collins) London: Studio Vista. 1969. pp. 128. 45/-

"City Fathers. The early history of Town Planning in Britain" by Colin and Rose Bell (Book Review)

"City Fathers. The early history of Town Planning in Britain" by Colin and Rose Bell (Book Review)

The Origins of Modern Town Planning

Carefully documented and copiously illustrated, The Origins of Modern Town Planning delves into the social origins and history of town planning in nineteenth-century England and France.The touchstone of Benevolo's research is the relationship between town planning and politics. The twofold origin of the planning concept found expression in two schools of nineteenth-century thought: the Utopians -- Owen, Saint-Simon, Fourier -- and their active vision of the town as a self-sufficient, coherent organism are contrasted with the specialists and officials who endeavored to remedy each urban defect individually by introducing new health regulations and social legislation into already existing towns. Despite the conceptual difference, however, Benevolo points out the shared ideology which inspired all achievements of thought and action -- even the purely technical -- and establishes its correspondence in spirit up to the time of modern socialism.

“Liverpool‐Football City”

Nearly 750 000 people and two football teams live in Liverpool, making it the third largest city and second largest port in England — and its football capital. It exports entertainers with talent and an accent that is pure Dublin, has two estates (Speke and Kirby) infamous in our short history of town planning, and was the home of Barlow before he reneged to Bristol. As the snow recedes, Liverpool lies third in the League and Everton fifth — probably the most important fact about the place to most of its male population. With Glasgow it shares a love/hate relationship on the battle of the Boyne that is thankfully receding, and an historical involvement with the slave trade and eighteenth century commerce, putting it midway between Glasgow and Bristol. Primarily a port and commercial centre, the large insurance offices, docks and light industry provide employment for its working population of 390 000.

The Future of Canberra

town planning history of the Australian Federal Capital is one of the most unusual of all among the new towns of the twentieth century. It is not that its growth has been no more rapid than the growth of Washington i^o years ago, when it might have been expected to be at least three times as fast. It is rather that a plan won in competition in 191 1 is still, with some amendments, the official plan of Canberra, and is still shown on present-day maps and guide books almost as if it had been carried out. For over 40 years this plan has been suspended. Criticism has rumbled over it like thunder all that time, from Patrick Abercrombie's report in this Review (Volume III, 191 2) up to the Senate Committee under Senator McCallum in i9££. Soon after the Senate Committee had reported, the decision was taken to move a further contingent of defence personnel into the Capital. It was thought that before the necessary housing and offices were put in hand Griffin's original town plan should be reviewed. It was at this juncture that the Minister for the Interior, the Hon. Allen Fairhall, asked me to visit Canberra again and carry out this review on the spot. This I did in June 19^7. All the evidence was made available including, of course, the McCallum Report; and I also had the advantage of the Prime Minister's views during Mr. Menzies' visit to England later in the year. In January 19^8 I submitted my Observations on the Future Development of Canberra. They were subsequently published for the Government by the Commonwealth Government Printer (as F. 2089/^8) and tabled in Parliament. With the Minister's permission the text is reproduced here, with only minor omissions. A postscript, on the subsequent history of this report is added at the end of this article.

Urban Transformation

The gradual acceptance by politically influential people of the belief that deliberate control of town growth was both feasible and fruitful is a theme in the history of town planning which has many aspects. The transformation of nineteenth century cities by means of street improvement was one of these; and Mr. David Pinkney has recently made a mature assessment of the range of motives underlying the sweeping changes wrought in the configuration of Parisian streets under the Second Empire. By contrast with Paris under the prefecture of Baron Haussmann, the transformation of London was tentative, not to say hesitating, and not undertaken for all the same reasons. In Paris, Mr. Pinkney has shown that political and strategic aims were mixed with desires for aesthetic and social amelioration. “In London”, Napoleon III is reported as saying, “they are concerned only with giving the best possible satisfaction to the needs of traffic.” But were they? It is the purpose of this brief note to comment on the validity of this assertion, and in doing so to illustrate an early approach to matters of urban improvement which are still at the heart of some contemporary town-planning problems.

The Space-Volume Relation in the History of Town Planning

The Space-Volume Relation in the History of Town Planning

A Prospect of Cities: Being Studies toward a History of Town Planning

A Prospect of Cities: Being Studies toward a History of Town Planning

The Development of Mariemont, Ohio

Mariemont, Ohio, a town in the making, situated just outside the city limits of Cincinnati, is a practical example of the application of the principles of community development laid down by Mr. John Nolen, M. AM. Soc. C. E., and is the result of the joint effort of men representing various professions. At Mariemont, which is patterned after the English garden cities, American methods, combined with modern city planning ideas, good architecture, and sound engineering practices, are creating a community which is unique in the history of town planning in the United States.