By Nigel Taylor

Following the second one global warfare, sleek structures of city and nearby making plans have been confirmed in Britain and so much different built nations. during this ebook, Nigel Taylor describes the alterations in making plans concept that have taken position on the grounds that then.

He outlines the most theories of making plans, from the conventional view of city making plans as an workout in actual layout, to the platforms and rational method perspectives of making plans of the Nineteen Sixties; from Marxist debts of the position of making plans in capitalist society within the Nineteen Seventies, to theories approximately making plans implementation, and more moderen perspectives of making plans as a kind of `communicative action'.

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G. in planning for 'neighbourhoods' ) , they were criticised for assuming that the shape of the physical environment determined the social environment. EARLY CRITIQUES OF POST-WAR PLANNING THEORY 43 Lack of consultation In the immediate post-war era town planners tended to assume they knew best what sorts of physical environments were unfit for people to live in. Accord­ ingly, they did not even consult the inhabitants about how they would like to see their surroundings planned. This point was made forcibly in Norman Dennis's ( 1 970) study of comprehensive redevelopment in Sunderland.

The general sense that these were good times was expressed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When boasting of his government's record prior to the British general election of 1 959, he told the British people 'You've never had it so good'. The period from 1 945 to the late 1 960s was also a kind of golden age for British town planning. 1 The amount of physical development which took place added to the role town planning had to play. The first priority was the reconstruction of those parts of Britain's cities which had been bombed during the war.

Building upon the traditional form and social organisation of the village, an image of desirable community life is held up as an ideal . . The notions of the small community and of the small dwelling with garden seem to reflect a British value on smallness and a corresponding suspicion of large size. Running throughout the British social ideology of cities upon which town planning had drawn is the distinct and strong suspicion that great cities do not provide really decent living places. The second value in the 'tree-structured' vision of the ideal city is the value accorded to orderliness itself - with its neatness, tidiness and the clear separa­ tion of things one from another.

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