Britain Post WWII Flashcards
What was Britain keen to do in terms of urban planning post WWII?
Enthusiastic to raze old towns and construct new
Wanted rationalist, functionalist and paternalist architecture to honour democracy
Blame for postwar planning usually lies with whom?
Who suggested this?
Blame for postwar planning usually lies with architects
MANDLER suggests that they are usually scapegoats
What made British postwar planning unique in Europe?
Use of the greenbelt - preserved intensely
Who was the Department for the Environment run by
Peter Walker
What was the LCC
London County Council
What did the DoE request reports of?
What did this contribute to the trend of?
DoE requested reports of the status of inner cities
Contributed to the trend of the rediscovery of poverty
Name some of the reports which contributed to the trend of the re-discovery of poverty
Beveridge Report
Plowden Report
Lambeth Report
Policy for the Inner Cities White Paper
When was the Beveridge Report published?
What did it suggest?
Beveridge Report: 1942
encouraged connections between planning / social insurance / organisation of industry
Suggested a postwar consensus of the need for social reform
What report was specifically commissioned by the DoE?
When was it published
What did it suggest / what was special about it
Lambeth Report
1972
X3 authors were all notorious modernists; but paper reproved modernist approach;
- suggested more needs reinvesting in inner cities
- advocated deindustrialisation
What did the Plowden Report suggest?
When was it published
1st sign of formal government awareness of the need for POSITIVE discrimination
1967
1970s in urban planning was a year of
Example
Heritage Consciousness
European Architecture Year of Heritage Consciousness 1975
Description of opposition to modernisation in the UK
organised and widespread
What did the Policy for the Inner Cities White Paper suggest
a move away from clearance to rehabilitation and been solidified
Which government nationalised development rights post war ?
What did this also involve the proposal of?
What did this give the government?
Attlee government nationalised development rights post war
Proposed New Towns
Gave the government the theoretically utopian power to aquire land
When was Laissez faire restored to development rights?
What did this involve
Churchill won power off of labour in 1951
Under conservatives - masses of privatisation
= restoration of rights back to landowners
