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Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain's War-Damaged Cities
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Abstract This article presents an overview of Second World War bomb damage to British towns and cities and a systematic evaluation of the relationship between damage, revisioning, replanning, and actual reconstruction in a sample of cities - Bath, Birmingham, and Hull. Two were severely affected by aerial bo... mehr
This article presents an overview of Second World War bomb damage to British towns and cities and a systematic evaluation of the relationship between damage, revisioning, replanning, and actual reconstruction in a sample of cities - Bath, Birmingham, and Hull. Two were severely affected by aerial bombing as port/industrial targets, and the third for propaganda purposes as a historical city. Two had extensive plans produced by eminent consultants (both involving Patrick Abercrombie) but the city managers of the third did not support "big plans." Birmingham, without a specific plan, rebuilt extensively and relatively quickly. Hull's plan was disliked locally and virtually vanished. Bath was repaired rather than rebuilt. These contrasting experiences have shaped the contemporary city via subsequent generations of replanning (not all of which was implemented) and, in Birmingham's case, the demolition of major reconstruction investments after relatively short lifespans. The article demonstrates the difficulty of conceptualising a generic approach to post-catastrophe reconstruction and the problems of such large-scale change over a short period for the longer-term effective functioning of the city.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Großbritannien; Zweiter Weltkrieg; Nachkriegszeit; Wiederaufbau; Stadtplanung
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Bath; Birmingham; Hull; UK; post-war replanning; rebuilding; reconstruction; wartime bomb damage
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 169-181
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 1
Heftthema
Bombed Cities: Legacies of Post-War Planning on the Contemporary Urban and Social Fabric
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)