Download or read book Milton Keynes in British Culture written by Lauren Pikó and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book General Observations on British New Town Planning written by Jack A. Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons from the British and French New Towns written by David Fée and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Plan for Milton Keynes written by Milton Keynes Development Corporation and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's largest new town, Milton Keynes, is the product of a Transatlantic planning culture and a plan for a relatively low-density motorised city generously endowed with roads, parklands, and the infrastructure of cabling for communications technology. At its heart was the charismatic and influential Richard (Lord) Llewelyn-Davies. A Labour Peer with various personal and professional interests in the USA, he drew upon the writings of American academics Melvin Webber and Herbert J. Gans, who were also invited to advise on social trends in relation to the urban context in the preparation for the Plan. The Plan bristled with an understanding that motorised transport and communications technology would shape the city of the future, and influence the nature and reach of ‘community’ and social interactions beyond the localised realm. Prepared by Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker and Bor, for Milton Keynes Development Corporation, and presented to the Minister for Housing and Local Government in 1970, the Plan for Milton Keynes is a vibrant expression of Sixties’ idealism and forward-thinking. In creating the ‘Little Los Angeles in North Buckinghamshire’, a low-density city whose citizens mostly rely upon the private motor car for their mobility, the Plan has become increasingly unfashionable as agendas for sustainability have called motorisation into question. Yet the gridroads and the gridsquares within them have been very popular with the people of Milton Keynes. The expansive thinking behind the Plan has important lessons for the limitations of current urban transport policy, and that cosy notions of neighbourhood and locally-driven community have little resonance for understanding the character of social relations in the twenty first century. The planning of Milton Keynes was more realistic and nuanced than much urban policy formulation today.
Download or read book About England written by David Matless and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Social History of Milton Keynes written by Mark Clapson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Green Infrastructure written by Benedetta Giudice and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies. The GI strategy is widely recognized for its multifunctionality (as a tool for ecological, economic and social enhancement) and multiscalarity. Starting from this assumption, the book intends to implement the concept of GI and blue networks in planning strategies and their linked urban projects. New urban and regional paradigms of the latest years, such as urban sprawl, ecosystem services, biodiversity, urban resilience, climate change and health emergencies, have made it necessary to rethink cities and territories and their related plans and projects. To satisfy these paradigms, worldwide plans and projects have started to focus both on short-term and long-term processes and strategies which integrate environmental, landscape and ecological elements. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Download or read book The Anxious City written by Richard J. Williams and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and provocative history of the development of the idea of the city in recent years. Key public spaces and buildings in England, Europe and the USA are discussed in relation to their socio-political context.
Download or read book Tales of the City written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Download or read book English File 4E Upper intermediate Student Book written by Christina Latham-Koenig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English File's unique, lively and enjoyable lessons are renowned for getting students talking. In fact, 90% of English File teachers we surveyed in our impact study found that the course improves students' speaking skills.
Download or read book Anglo American Crossroads written by Mark Clapson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war Britain.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panel on Science and Technology Tenth Meeting Science Technology and the Cities Proceedings 91 1 February 4 6 1969 1 written by United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panel on Science and Technology Tenth Meeting written by Panel on Science and Technology. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 1. Considers papers presented by panel members on research in urban planning and development.
Download or read book Where is Language written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech? For too long, ethnographic, aesthetic and sociolinguistic studies of language have remained apart from analyses emerging from traditions such as literature and performance. Where is Language? argues for a more complex and contextualized understanding of language across this range of disciplines, engaging with key issues, including orality, literacy, narrative, ideology, performance and the human communities in which these take place. Eminent anthropologist Ruth Finnegan draws together a lifetime of ethnographic case studies, reading and personal commentary to explore the roles and nature of language in cultures across the world, from West Africa to the South Pacific. By combining research and reflections, Finnegan discusses the multi-modality of language to provide an account not simply of vocabulary and grammar, but one which questions the importance of cultural settings and the essence of human communication itself.
