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Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135757779
This book discusses the prejudices that have distorted understandings of the city of Milton Keynes and focuses upon the original thinking that went into the planning of Milton Keynes.
Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135757762
Established in 1967, Milton Keynes is England's largest new city and one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the UK. It is also a suburban city, genuinely liked and appreciated by most of its citizens. For many reasons, however, Milton Keynes is misunderstood, and its valuable recent lessons are mostly ignored in debates about national urban policy. This book discusses the popular and intellectual prejudices that have distorted understandings of the new city. A city is nothing without its people, of course, so Mark Clapson looks at who has moved to Milton Keynes, and discusses their experiences of settling in. He also confronts the common myth of the new city's soullessness with an account of community and association that emphasizes the strength of social interaction there.
Author : Sydney Frank Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014927326
Author : Sir Frank MARKHAM,Sydney Frank Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Milton Keynes (England)
ISBN : OCLC:562313618
Author : Lauren Pikó
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429816178
The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British media, political rhetoric and popular culture negatively. as a fundamentally sterile, paternalistic, concrete imposition on the landscape, as a "joke", and even as "Los Angeles in Buckinghamshire". How did these meanings develop at such odds from residents' and planners' experiences? Why have these meanings proved so resilient? Milton Keynes in British Culture traces the representations of Milton Keynes in British national media, political rhetoric and popular culture in detail from 1967 to 1992, demonstrating how the town's founding principles came to be understood as symbolic of the worst excesses of a postwar state planning system which was falling from favour. Combining approaches from urban planning history, cultural history and cultural studies, political economy and heritage studies, the book maps the ways in which Milton Keynes' newness formed an existential challenge to ideals of English landscapes as receptacles of tradition and closed, fixed national identities. Far from being a marginal, "foreign" and atypical town, the book demonstrates how the changing political fortunes of state urban planned spaces were a key site of conflict around ideas of how the British state should function, how its landscapes should look, and who they should be for.
Author : Susan Popoola
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438917634
Milton Keynes comes to life in this concise, yet comprehensive and multi-dimsensional exploration of a city often misunderstood. Carefully and lovingly researched, this is a tale of roundabouts and concrete cows, of ancient settlers mostly marginalised and in danger of being forgotten, of a promising football team, of lakes and water sports, a thriving business and social community with unique issues and a promising future. The reader is drawn into a place of growing beauty and charm that truly has something for everyone. Details are woven together with the robust opinion of a proud stakeholder. A strong sense of the authors experience of and passion for the city is conveyed right through the pages. It occurs to me that of all those who will benefit from this book, it is most valuable to the city herself. Milton Keynes will be very proud of a certain patrotic author resident called Susan Popoola. Nnamdi Dime, CEO, Dimensional Solutions Ltd
Author : Guy Ortolano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482660
Horizons -- Planning -- Architecture -- Community -- Consulting -- Housing.
Author : Andreas Ludwig
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783835347465
Neue Städte: Materialisierungen ihrer Zeit an einem konkreten Ort. Neue Städte sind Ausdruck einer Utopie: Mit ihnen sollte die Wohnungsnot im kriegszerstörten Europa gelöst, Wohnraum für groß angelegte Industrialisierungsprojekte und die Verwirklichung einer modernen Lebensweise ermöglicht werden. Zugleich stellten sie Repräsentation von Herrschaft und Raumkontrolle dar. Neue Städte altern jedoch schneller als andere Städte. Grund sind Strukturwandel und soziale Veränderungen. Es erfolgten Abrisse, aber auch denkmalpflegerische Rekonstruktion und der Aufbau Neuer Städte an anderen Orten. Die Beiträge des Buches beschreiben den Wandel der Neuen Stadt seit 1945 und verfolgen ihre Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart - mit Beispielen aus Frankreich, Großbritannien, Albanien, Polen, Ungarn, Israel und China. Dabei geht es auch um die urbane und historische Authentizität der Neuen Stadt und den jeweiligen Umgang mit der eigenen Geschichte.
Author : Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349141282
'An active pleasure to read' Mail on Sunday Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.
Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226346038
The typical town springs up around a natural resource such as a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbour or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with 'new towns, ' which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren't a new thing but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the 20th century. Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon, from Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California.
Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441141491
A critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war Britain.
Author : Ian Wray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317290193
Can the British plan? Sometimes it seems unlikely. Across the world we see grand designs and visionary projects: new airport terminals, nuclear power stations, high-speed railways, and glittering buildings. It all seems an unattainable goal on Britain’s small and crowded island; and yet perhaps this is too pessimistic. For the British have always planned, and much of what they have today is the result of past plans, successfully implemented. Ranging widely, from London’s squares and the new city of Milton Keynes, to ‘High Speed One’, the motorways, and the secret first electronic computers, Ian Wray’s remarkable book puts successful infrastructure plans under the microscope. Who made these plans and what made them stick? How does this reflect the defining characteristics of British government? And what does that say about the individuals who drew them up and saw them through? In so doing the book casts refreshing new light on how big decisions have actually been made, revealing the hidden sources of drive and initiative in British society, as seen through the lens of ‘plans past’. And it asks some searching questions about the mechanisms we might need for successful ‘plans future’, in Britain and elsewhere. Includes foreword by the Right Honourable the Lord Heseltine CH.
Author : David Fée,Bob Colenutt,Sabine Coady Schäbitz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839094309
This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.
Author : Sydney Frank Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014927318
Author : David Matless
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789147544
A cultural history of “Englishness” and the idea of England since 1960. Brexit thrust long fraught debates about “Englishness” and the idea of England into the spotlight. About England explores imaginings of English identity since the 1960s in politics, geography, art, architecture, film, and music. David Matless reveals how the national is entangled with the local, the regional, the European, the international, the imperial, the post-imperial, and the global. He also addresses physical landscapes, from the village and country house to urban, suburban, and industrial spaces, and he reflects on the nature of English modernity. In short, About England uncovers the genealogy of recent cultural and political debates in England, showing how many of today’s social anxieties developed throughout the last half-century.