Umfang:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
9781839094309
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Half Title page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Lessons from British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? -- The British and French New Towns in History -- From Cutting-Edge Experiments to Fraught Legacy -- Renewing the New Towns Experiment? -- Purpose of the Book -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: The New Towns and Policymakers -- Chapter 1: Reinventing the Healthy Garden City: Ebbsfleet's Learning from the New Towns -- Introduction -- Transferable Lessons from the New Towns -- Reinvigorated Mechanisms for Planning New Settlements -- Influential Actors Facilitating the New Garden Communities -- Recent Government Criteria for New Settlements -- Planning for Health from the Beginning -- Ebbsfleet - An Area Long Marked Out for Housing Growth but Slow to Deliver -- A Twenty-First Century Garden City Learning from the New Towns -- Ebbsfleet - Reconciling Policy Ambition with Circumstance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Loss and Longing: Whatever Happened to the Egalitarian Ethos of the UK New Towns? -- Introduction -- Hauntology -- The Post-War Spirit -- How it Happened -- A Vision Interrupted -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Unpacking the Official View: Five Myths on British New Towns -- Introduction -- The Challenge of Building 'Balanced' Communities -- A Case Study of New Towns Blues or Suburban Dystopia? -- Design-Driven Stereotypes of New Towns as Mostly Modernist Projects -- New Towns are Nothing More than Large Council Estates -- Land-Banking Over Compulsory Purchase Orders -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams? Building New Towns in France Today -- Introduction -- The French New Towns Experiment -- The 2020 Housing and Demographic Context.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781839094316
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lessons from the British and French new towns Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2021 ISBN 9781839094316
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Frankreich
;
Großbritannien
;
Neue Stadt
