Lecture 4: Communities II: Community in a Changing World

Question 1

The Rise of Community Planning in the UK

1944 Dudley Report

Answer 1

Promotion of ‘neighbourhood’ and community life a key feature of UK post-war planning efforts (allied with Fordist way of economic life)

Question 2

The Rise of Community Planning in the UK

1947 Town and Country Planning Act

Answer 2

• All planning was to be subject to planning permission by local councils
• Local authority ‘development plan’

Question 3

The Decline of Fordism (1970s…)

Answer 3

• Flexible Specialization
• Globalisation
• Growing demand by women to enter workforce
• Modern Consumerism
• Neoliberal De-Regulation (state retrenchment)
Knox and Pinch, 2010

Question 4

By the 1960s…

Answer 4

The idealised notion of neighbourhood communities began to lose its appeal and came under scrutiny- greater recognition of the divided nature of society.

Question 5

Benedict Anderson (1983) ‘Imagined Communities’

Answer 5

All nations are “imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each they carry the image of their communion” (Anderson 1983)

Question 6

Valentine, 2001:

Answer 6

• Communities which are not predicated on space (Webber, 1963)
• ‘Stretched-out’ communities (Silk, 1999)

Question 7

Decline of Fordism

Answer 7

70s…
Flexible specialisation
Globalisation
Growing demand by women to enter workforce
Modern consumerism- people wanted more niche products to develop identities.