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Stefan Petrow - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Town Planning in Regional Australia: The Case of Launceston 1915–45
Urban Policy and Research, 2013Co-Authors: Stefan PetrowAbstract:Historians of Town Planning in Australia have focused too much attention on capital cities and largely ignored developments in regional cities between 1915 and 1945. This article seeks to redress the balance by directing attention to the regional city of Launceston in northern Tasmania, Australia where a Town Planning consciousness developed in the 1930s not least due to the work of organisations like the Northern Tasmanian Town Planning Association and prominent architects seeking to preserve and extend Launceston's reputation as a beautiful garden city. The City Council created tensions with the Town Planning movement because of its reluctance to spend large amounts on Town Planning projects. From 1943, in the euphoria of a new society promised in the post-war world, Town Planning assumed greater importance to meet heightened public expectations. The State Government supported Town Planning and passed the Town and Country Planning Act 1944, the first major Planning legislation in Tasmania. At last the i...
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'A vital necessity'? Town Planning in Launceston 1915-1930
2012Co-Authors: Stefan PetrowAbstract:By the early twentieth century Launceston had earned a reputation as one of the most progressive cities in Australia and leader in the provision of municipal services. But by 1914, despite its beautiful parks and natural surroundings, many citizens perceived that it lagged behind in Town Planning. Town Planning was regarded as 'a vital necessity' as Launceston was becoming a growing industrial centre and port, the population was increasing and the city was expanding. The 1915-16 lectures by British Town Planning advocate Charles C. Reade stimulated much interest in Town Planning and for the next fifteen years Town Planning developments in Australia and abroad were widely discussed. Bodies such as the Northern Tasmanian Town Planning Association and the Launceston Fifty Thousand League, leading architects and the city newspapers urged the City Council to improve eyesores such as insanitary housing and swamps, to beautify existing parks and to plan for future growth. The provision of parks and reserves in the growing suburbs, the subdivision of suburban estates along Town Planning lines, wider streets and a Town Planning Act were also common demands. Private enterprise cashed in on the interest in Town Planning by advertising their estates as garden suburbs or providing housing for workers. This paper examines what was achieved in Launceston by 1930 after a major flood and the onset of economic depression distracted attention from Town Planning.
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Continued Improvement and Beautification? Town Planning in Launceston 1930-1945
2012Co-Authors: Stefan PetrowAbstract:In the 1930s the regional city of Launceston in northern Tasmania, Australia developed a Town Planning consciousness These reasons included the appointment in 1930 of a new City Engineer who was a Town Planning enthusiast, the revival of the Northern Tasmanian Town Planning Association in 1933, the leading role taken by architects who trumpeted the virtues of Town Planning, and the support of the Fifty Thousand League, a booster organization intent on expanding Launceston’s population and economy. These forces combined to preserve and extend Launceston’s reputation as a beautiful city. The City Council was receptive to calls for further beautification of the city, but created tensions with the Town Planning movement because of its reluctance to spend large amounts on Town Planning when faced with implementing an expensive flood prevention scheme. Further tensions were created by the State Government’s disregard of plans for city improvement. World War 2 initially slowed the momentum of the Town Planning movement. But from 1943, in the euphoria of a new society promised in the post-war world and the need for more housing once war ended, Town Planning assumed greater importance to meet heightened public expectations. Finally the State Government supported Town Planning and passed the Town and Country Planning Act 1944, long desired by Town planners. At last the interests of the City Council, the State Government and citizens’ groups converged. This paper examines what was achieved in the assertive and growing regional city of Launceston between 1930 and 1945.
Hugh Ellis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The re-creation of social Town Planning?
Planning Theory & Practice, 2015Co-Authors: Hugh EllisAbstract:There is deep irony in the fact that while England1 was one of the places which pioneered visionary, socially progressive Town Planning it is now known internationally for its comprehensive abandon...
Michael Hebbert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Town Planning Versus Urbanismo
Planning Perspectives, 2006Co-Authors: Michael HebbertAbstract:The point of departure of this article is the contrast drawn by Giorgio Piccinato between ‘Anglo‐Saxon’ Town Planning and ‘Latin’ urbanism, one based on rational method and theory of Planning as intervention, the other on architecture, urban morphology and project‐based action. Gordon Cherry and Oriol Bohigas represent the two poles of the dichotomy – Cherry because of the emphasis he placed on separation from architecture in the professional emergence of the UK’s Royal Town Planning Institute, Bohigas because of his equally insistent emphasis on reintegrating Planning with its mother discipline. The paper sets Bohigas and the regeneration of Barcelona into the wider context of a postmodern urbanism troubled by the neighbouring internecine rivalry between modernist and traditionalist architects. It is argued that Barcelona’s most distinctive contribution is less the replacement of ‘plans’ by ‘projects’ than its reconciliation of modernism and contextualism, a lesson duly acknowledged in the Anglo‐Saxon pl...
Nigel Taylor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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anglo american Town Planning theory since 1945 three significant developments but no paradigm shifts
Planning Perspectives, 1999Co-Authors: Nigel TaylorAbstract:In recent times it has become fashionable to describe major changes in the history of ideas as 'paradigm' shifts, and some have described changes in Town Planning thought since the end of the Second World War in these terms. In this article I offer an overview of the history of Town Planning thought since 1945, and suggest that there have been three outstanding changes in Planning thought over this period. These are, first, the shift in the 1960s from the view of Town Planning as an exercise in physical Planning and urban design to the systems and rational process views of Planning; second, the shift from the view of Town Planning as an activity requiring some technical expertise to the view of Planning as a political process of making value-judgements about environmental change in which the planner acts as a manager and facilitator of that process; and third, the shift from 'modernist' to 'postmodernist' Planning theory. I argue that none of these changes represents a paradigm change in anything like the...
Huo Yaozhong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Town Planning analysis: ideas, methodologies and practices
Urban Studies, 2005Co-Authors: Huo YaozhongAbstract:As a typical cross-disciplinary subject, urban morphology has attracted broad r esearch interests in the fields of architecture, Planning and geography. “Town p lanning analysis" is one of important theoretical bases of the urban morphologic al s tudy. It is rooted in the morphogenetic research in the Central Europe. With an emphasis on urban analysis process and model, Town Planning analysis is prominen tly promoted by M. R. G. Conzen. Based on a related literature review, this study in troduces and examines the general concepts of Town Planning analysis, this histo ric al derivation and development process. As a powerful tool in urban studies, Town Planning analysis can substantially contribute to contemporary research and pra ctice on preservation of traditional Chinese cities.
