Man-made Future: Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

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ISBN: 9780203003954 | 0203003950
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Copyright: 12/20/2006

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A collection of essays investigating post-1945 city planning in Britain from a visual, emotional and aesthetic viewpoint rather than the purely technical, describing the emergence of a new post-war society.

List of illustration credits	p. vii
Preface	p. x
List of contributors	p. xii
1947 and all that: why has the Act lasted so long?	p. 1
Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness	p. 16
Surveying and comprehensive planning: the 'co-ordination of knowledge' in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock	p. 38
Everywhere at any time: post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future	p. 59
Perceptions in the conception of the Modernist urban environment: Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt	p. 78
Selling the future city: images in UK post-war reconstruction plans	p. 99
Paper dream city/modern monument: Donald Gibson and Coventry	p. 121
Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain: Some everyday experiences of the rebuilding of Coventry, 1944-62	p. 145
'Into the world of Conscious Expression': Modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association, 1933-39	p. 157
Plan: a student journal of ambition and anxiety	p. 174
'Destroy all humans!'	p. 191
The English university of the 1960s: built community, model universe	p. 205
The tall barracks artistically reconsidered: Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks and the total environment of modern military life	p. 223
Index	p. 247
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Man-made Future: Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

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