Urban reflections : Narratives of place, planning and change /
Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book offers a fresh incisive story of urban change, one that evokes both real and imagi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Policy Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Between recreated past and threatening future: The modern planning project
- Introduction
- "This new fangled planning doctrine"
- "The era of reconstruction begins"
- The desire for the modern world: Narratives of change for cities and planning 1930-1979
- Poetic realism: filmic planning in an era of transport modernisation
- "Look at all those chimneys. That's money." Urban space and social realism
- "It's like living in heaven up here!"
- "The planners did their best." Utilising irony and prose to protect the past
- Taking a bird's-eye view: modern planning and the changing landscape
- "Planning turned out to be war by other means"
- In everything, accept the genius of the place: Towards a new respect for place in planning
- A multiplicity of meanings of space and place
- "A sense of beauty, culture and civic pride"
- Fearful symmetries: the spirit and purpose of modern planning
- References
- Index
