LEADER 05303nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910452269003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-87408-3 010 $a1-4411-4477-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000709836 035 $a(EBL)1094071 035 $a(OCoLC)823726263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12289075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10828028 035 $a(PQKB)11292818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1094071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1094071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10638839 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL418658 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000709836 100 $a20130107d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnglo-American crossroads$b[electronic resource] $eurban planning and research in Britain, 1940-2010 /$fMark Clapson 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cBloomsbury Publishing$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-7532-6 311 $a1-4411-4149-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Timeline; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Direction of Travel; Rationale; The scope and content of Anglo-American Crossroads; Chapter 2: Roads to Reconstruction: The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Special Housing Mission to W; Introduction; The Rockefeller Foundation and the wartime British city; The Special Housing Mission to Great Britain, 1942-46; Networks and themes coalesce; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Green Lights for Understanding: The American Contribution to Urban Research in Britain,; Introduction 327 $aThe Institute of Community Studies The Centre for Urban Studies; The Centre for Environmental Studies; The Ditchley Foundation; Social scientists and the Rockefeller Foundation; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Through Roads and Dead Ends: American Influences on Post-war Urban Reconstruction; Introduction; The new towns programme; Travelling beyond the neighbourhood unit; Roads and urban renewal; Radburn and the design of post-war new towns and new communities; Roads, Radburn and the re-thinking of residential areas: The initial planning of Milton Keynes; The final passing of the neighbourhood unit 327 $aEducation and campuses Some conclusions; Chapter 5: Roads to Edge City: Motorization, Milton Keynes and Urbanization After the Era of Recon; Introduction; Edge City; From the detested to the digested city: Learning from Los Angeles; Roads: Similarities and differences between LA and MK; Shopping centres; Linear parks, waterfronts and redways; LA and MK: Some other differences; Conclusion: England's most American city; Chapter 6: The Opposite Direction: British Influences Upon Privately and Publicly Developed New Tow; Introduction; James W. Rouse, Cross Keys and Columbia; Reston, Virginia 327 $aThe New Communities Development Act of 1968 and the federally assisted new towns in the United The ending of the federally assisted new communities; Operation Breakthrough; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Avoiding Danger: The USA and the Regeneration of the Inner City in Britain Since 1970; Introduction; The growth of the inner city problem in Britain; The inner city problem in England and the United States of America; Inner city policies during the late 1960's and the 1970's; The significance of failure: The community development projects 327 $aEnterprise zones: Business-led solutions to decline during the 1980's and 1990's From Baltimore to Britain: Waterfronts and urban regeneration; Gentrification: Encouraging the middle classes back into the inner cities and the city centres; From SoHo to Soho: Loft living; Conclusion: The special relationship between the British and American city since 1970; Chapter 8: A Coda on New Urbanism: Back to Milton Keynes; High Priests and Princes; New Urbanism and Milton Keynes; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Bibliography and Sources 327 $aArchive Sources 330 $aThe postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads explores how Americanisation influenced key approaches to town planning, from reconstruction after 1945 to the New Urbanism of the 1990's. Clapson pays particular attention to the relationship between urban sociological research and planning issues since the 1950's. He also addresses the ways in which 606 $aCity planning$zGreat Britain 606 $aUrbanization$zGreat Britain 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCity planning 615 0$aUrbanization 676 $a307.3416094109045 700 $aClapson$b Mark$0866843 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452269003321 996 $aAnglo-American crossroads$92121627 997 $aUNINA