scholarly journals Reassessing the Legacy of Twentieth-Century New Towns

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-187
Author(s):  
Filippo De Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Towns

scholarly journals ‘A Stammering Bundle of Welsh Idealism’: Arthur Trystan Edwards and Principles of Civic Design in Interwar Britain

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 175-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.E. Shasore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
High Density ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
The Us ◽  
Interwar Britain

AbstractThis article provides the first account of key texts and concepts in the theory and criticism of Arthur Trystan Edwards. Edwards's notion of ‘civic design’, which emanated from the Liverpool School of Architecture in the second decade of the twentieth century, was part of a broader international trend (particularly in the US and Europe) towards formal, axial and monumental planning. Edwards imbued civic design with a philosophical and political sophistication that set him apart from many of his non-Modernist contemporaries. The article discusses the underlying precepts — such as ‘subject’, ‘form’, ‘urbanity’ and ‘manners’ — in some of Edwards's critical texts, including Good and Bad Manners in Architecture (1924). The final section traces his pioneering interest in high-density, low-rise housing, which culminated with the establishment of the Hundred New Towns Association in 1933–34.

The troubled passage from ‘village communities’ to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM J. GLOVER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
New Town ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Village Communities

ABSTRACT:This article begins with an examination of how rural and urban society in India were conceptualized in relation to one another at different moments during the twentieth century, arguing that rapid urbanization during the middle decades forced important changes in those conceptualizations. If in an earlier period analysts saw the world of the village dweller as radically separate from that of the urban dweller, then rapid urbanization destabilized this idea and forced analysts to entertain the implications of there being a kind of ‘sliding scale’ between the two. This discursive shift helped produce a new object of concern in mid-century urban sociology – that of the ‘villager in the city’. While this sociological object formed the core of numerous mid-century (and later) studies of existing large cities, it played a more determinate role asa priorigrounds for planned new towns than it did for perhaps any other model of urban growth. The article argues that proponents of planned new towns favoured their conservative potential: namely, the new town promised to nurture ‘inherited tendencies and habits’ in first-generation urban migrants, rather than produce wholly new modes of urban subjectivity.

Treaty 6 Cree Annuity Spending in the Territorial Economy of Western Canada, 1873–1905

Ethnohistory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
George Colpitts
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Pass System ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Indigenous Movement

Abstract Before mass settlement occurred in Western Canada at the turn of the twentieth century, Indigenous people used treaty monetization and town spending to subvert the very forces of liberalism encouraged with the expansion of a colonial market economy. After 1880, the Cree of Treaty 6, in particular, chose to collectively spend their annuities in new towns to support traditional dances and ceremonies and, especially, to join together in large multiband gatherings. Despite increasingly restrictive government policies, particularly the pass system that limited Indigenous movement beyond reserves, town “Treaty Days” spending only declined in prevalence in the late 1890s when treaty annuities began quickly losing their extraordinary spending power.

Planning the New Towns in Libya

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Kezeiri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
New Town ◽  
New Towns ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Recent Government

AbstractThe recent history of Middle Eastern new town formation and the concepts which underlie it are briefly outlined. New town developments in Libya are reviewed, from the colonial experiments of Italy, through the oil industry expansion in the 1960s, to the recent government sponsored schemes. A number of case studies are provided to illustrate the specific environmental and social factors which planners need to take into account in Libya. Some preliminary comments are offered on the success and failure of twentieth century new towns in Libya.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century Classics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiva Wijesinha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century
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