‘A New Image of the Town Centre’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fair
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Town

This chapter locates key theatres of the 1960s and early 1970s in a series of urban contexts. The first part of the chapter discusses the idea of civic pride, and shows how this idea—often associated with the nineteenth century—persisted in the post-war period. It discusses how theatres could be invoked in discussions of civic pride and urban identity, and the range of individuals and organizations who did so. The second part of the chapter considers a series of examples whose location was discussed at some length. Some of these examples were located in civic centres as demonstrations of their role as a civic amenity, but others were built in shopping areas to suggest accessibility. Key examples discussed in the chapter include Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre, Derby Playhouse, Billingham Forum, and the unbuilt Glasgow Cultural Centre.

‘A Street of Butchers’. An Economic and Social Profile of Hercules Place and Hercules Street, Belfast 1860–90

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley E. E. Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Large Concentration ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
The Town

Hercules Street and Hercules Place were two of Belfast’s oldest streets and, by the mid-nineteenth century, they were in the town centre. These streets always had a large concentration of butchers (a cluster). This cluster was broken up in 1880 when the area was cleared to create a new, modern street and did not reform. The clearance was to improve traffic flow but also for reasons of civic pride; despite the unpleasant nature of the butchery trade neither that, nor public health were stated reasons for this clearance. This article examines the economy and society of these streets and the effects of the dislocation caused by the clearance of this area.

The Spinning House girls: Cambridge University's distinctive policing of prostitution, 1823–1894

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET OSWALD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Dual System ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACT:This article explores the regulation of prostitution in nineteenth-century Cambridge by an appraisal of the committal books of the university prison. Each evening in term-time the university proctors arrested and imprisoned local ‘streetwalkers’ in an attempt to protect the students’ morals. This research offers insight into the ways in which Cambridge's geography and its dual system of governance influenced the policing of prostitution in the town centre. The former compelled students and townspeople to share the same crowded space and the latter enabled the university to enforce traditional patterns of class and gender to control sexuality in the town.

The continuing tradition of civic pride: municipal culture in post-war Manchester

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Shapely
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Industrial Decline ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

It has been argued that civic pride declined after its heyday in the Victorian period but Peter Shapely contests this view, illustrating how in Manchester, a combination of civic pride, social reform and policy rooted in the Victorian period were re-defined over the twentieth-century, albeit retaining a ‘boosterish’ emphasis on the city’s image and reputation, particularly in the 1960s. Postwar planners aimed to construct their own version of a modern cityscape in Manchester delivered through a programme of ambitious building projects whose civic ambitions would have been familiar to their Victorian predecessors. When these aspirations faltered during Manchester’s industrial decline between the mid-1970s and late-1980s, civic pride was maintained by the ambitions of the local press, politicians and prominent figures and eventually harnessed to new regeneration projects, as Manchester’s image was re-invented through high-profile re-development schemes and festivals based on sport and the arts. There were, as Shapely argues, continuities in how governing elites and institutions defined the contours of Manchester’s civic pride and reputation, a cultural hegemony that persisted across two centuries. This was, however, distinct from the sense of civic pride which many ordinary local residents experienced with different kinds of local attachment and identity.

scholarly journals Big Fish in Small Ponds: The Exercise of Power in a Nineteenth-century Philippine Municipality

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Bankoff
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Swamp Forest ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
The Town

The basic administrative unit in the Spanish Philippines was the pueblo or municipal township. The pueblo encompassed both settled and unsettled districts within its geographical boundaries. The town centre Known as the población was the largest single residential zone within the municipality but was surrounded by smaller satellite communities. Beyond these areas of settlement were the sparsely populated regions of swamp, forest, plain or mountain. Size varied enormously both in geographical extent and population density from a few hundred families clustered in a single village or barangay in frontier areas to many tens of thousands of persons spread over a number of settlements in the lowland provinces of Luzon and the central Visayas.2 The administrative boundaries of one pueblo, however, bordered upon another so that all areas under Spanish suzerainty fell within one or other of these municipalities.

Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Fleisher ◽  
Stephanie Wynne-Jones ◽  
Charlene Steele ◽  
Kate Welham
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Geophysical Survey ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Site Layout ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Town ◽  
Monumental Space

Geophysical survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzania, has recovered evidence for several aspects of town layout and the use of space within the town that enhance our understandings of this important Swahili site. Although excavations in the 1960s recovered substantial monuments at this stonetown and traced a chronology for the development of the site from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries AD, the overall site layout has remained poorly understood. This paper outlines the possibilities that geophysics creates for positioning the excavations within a broader urban landscape, and reports on a preliminary season of survey at Kilwa. Two areas were the focus of fieldwork during 2011. First the main town centre was surveyed, and the results suggest a denser town plan of coral-built houses that have subsequently been robbed. Second, the enigmatic enclosure of Husuni Ndogo was explored, and revealed evidence for activity relating to metalworking in this monumental space.

scholarly journals ZMIIV AND ZMIIV POVIT IN REFLECTION OF THE LOCAL NOBILITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
O. M. Obchenko
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local History ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Town

The study of local communities is important in modern history. Local history helps to understand the peculiarities of the historical development of the regions and their inhabitants. The article examines statistical and socio-cultural information about the small town of Zmiiv in the early nineteenth century. The article analyzes the plan of the town of Zmiiv and the seal of the town of Zmiiv. The composition of the city’s residents is also analyzed and compared with the Chuhuiv town. Town Zmiiv is located in the Kharkiv region. In the XIX century Zmiiv was the district (povit) center. Analysis of the town’s development shows that gradual processes of modernization have begun in Zmiiv. Beyond to statistics, the ideas of the local gentleman Fedir Krychevsky about the town and its history are analyzed. Krychevsky lived in Zmiv in the early nineteenth century. Krychevsky’s reasoning helps us to understand how provincial nobles imagined an ideal city in the early nineteenth century. The local nobility formed the local urban identity. It was a premodern town in reality and in their imagination as well. He was the head of the local nobility. It is possible to reconstruct the stereotypes of this nobleman about the town of Zmiiv. The province is a place where urban and rural cultures interact. Nowhere is this more visible than in province town. Zmiiv is a typical town in eastern Ukraine. Exploring its features will help to better understand the history of this region.

Ethical Resistance: Modernity, Revisionism, and the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas

2020 ◽  
pp. 088832542096116
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Błesznowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
Communist System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

In this article, I reflect on the Warsaw school of the history of ideas (WSHI), a loose collective of people that formed after the birth of the communist system in Poland. First, I analyse the biographical factors that determined the political and intellectual choices of the WSHI members. Next, I attempt to show the nature of their public attitudes, which can be seen as part of the habitus of post-war Marxist intellectuals in Poland. My aim is to investigate how it happened that the WSHI, while was an element of Polish state at the beginning, became, in the 1960s, one of the primary points of contestation in Poland and an indicator of the collapse of the project of institutionalising Marxism-Leninism in Polish universities. I assume that the transformation did not entail a simple transmission from the nineteenth century to post-war revisionism but instead implied a series of breaks with, and migrations of, ideological models. Therefore, this analysis does not trace the line that separated the Polish leftist tradition from post-war communism, but rather describes their relationship, showing how the ethos of the socially engaged intelligentsia in Poland fitted into scholarly post-war biographies. My hypothesis is the following: in the case of the WSHI, the element of connection was a feature that Andrzej Mencwel refers to as “culturalism”—an ethical attitude inherited from earlier generations of leftist humanists.

Local: Leeds in the age of great cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Derek Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Town

This chapter explores Leeds as one of the shock cities of the Industrial Revolution, which experienced massive population growth in the nineteenth century. The new industrial classes challenged the old merchant elite and sought political power. The 1832 election, the first time Leeds gained parliamentary representation, was an important statement about the new urban society. The building of the Town Hall was an expression of civic pride and Queen Victoria opened it.

scholarly journals Glasgow's new town hall: imperialism, nationalism and civic pride, 1877–1889

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Miel Groten
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
New Town ◽  
Civic Pride ◽  
The Town

Abstract Nineteenth-century Glasgow was widely imagined and presented as the proud ‘Second City of the Empire’. This article investigates the implications of this identification with the empire by analysing Glasgow's great town hall, built 1883–89, as the main manifestation of the city's civic pride. It shows how the building's architectural style, sculpture and inauguration ceremonies created a specific image of ‘imperial’ Glasgow which emphasized loyalty to Union and empire. Instead of undermining each other, the layered political allegiances of civic pride, nationalism, unionism and imperialism were mutually reinforcing, shaping the town hall still in use today.

Ambivalent Relationships: London's Youth Culture and the Making of the Multi-Racial Society in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Fuhg
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Class Youth

The emergence and formation of British working-class youth cultures in the 1960s were characterized by an ambivalent relationship between British identity, global culture and the formation of a multicultural society in the post-war decades. While national and local newspapers mostly reported on racial tensions and racially-motivated violence, culminating in the Notting Hill riots of 1958, the relationship between London's white working-class youth and teenagers with migration backgrounds was also shaped by a reciprocal, direct and indirect, personal and cultural exchange based on social interaction and local conditions. Starting from the Notting Hill Riots 1958, the article reconstructs places and cultural spheres of interaction between white working-class youth and teenagers from Caribbean communities in London in the 1960s. Following debates and discussions on race relations and the participation of black youth in the social life of London in the 1960s, the article shows that British working-class youth culture was affected in various ways by the processes of migration. By dealing with the multicultural dimension of the post-war metropolis, white working-class teenagers negotiated socio-economic as well as political changes, contributing in the process to an emergent, new image of post-imperial Britain.

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