New Zealand's ‘New Order’: Town Planning and Soldier Settlement After the First World War

War & Society ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Miller ◽  
Michael Roche
Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greet De Block ◽  
Bruno De Meulder

This article traces the implicit spatial project of Belgian engineers during the interwar period. By analyzing infrastructure planning and its inscribed spatial ideas as well as examining the hybrid modernity advocated by engineers and politicians, this article contributes to both urban and transport history.Unlike colleagues in countries such as Germany, Italy and the United States, Belgian engineers were not convinced that highways offered a salutary new order to a nation traumatized by the First World War. On the contrary, the Ponts et Chaussées asserted that this new limited access road would tear apart the densely populated areas and the diverse regional identities in Belgium. In their opinion, only an integration of existing and new infrastructure could harmonize the historically fragmented and urbanized territory. Tirelessly, engineers produced infrastructure plans, strategically interweaving different transport systems, which had to result in an overall transformation of the territory to facilitate modern production and export logics.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Hubert Trammer

After the First World War many reasons caused the increase of the scale of the problem of the bad housing conditions. This text presents the overview of the solutions, from the field of architecture and town planning as well as from the field of law and economy, created in Germany as an answer for the housing problem. The circumstances connected with them are also presented. There is a more detailed presentation of the activity of the biggest german association acting in the field of erecting housing assemblies – the GEHAG society (Gemeinnützige Heimsstätten- Aktiengesellschaft = Join-Stock Society for Social Settlements).


Scheming ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Seán Damer

This chapter discusses both the national and local housing situation in Glasgow at the end of the First World War. It argues that it was so bad that the state had to take the initiative in the provision of working-class housing “fit for heroes” as an insurance policy against revolution. But the consequent legislation – the 1919 Housing & Town Planning Act – was ill-designed, with over-generous subsidies. Nevertheless, within Glasgow, these schemes built under this Act were and are regarded as élite.


2000 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
R. Soloviy

In the history of religious organizations of Western Ukraine in the 20-30th years of the XX century. The activity of such an early protestant denominational formation as the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church occupies a prominent position. Among UCRC researchers there are several approaches to the preconditions for the birth of the Ukrainian Calvinistic movement in Western Ukraine. In particular, O. Dombrovsky, studying the historical preconditions for the formation of the UREC in Western Ukraine, expressed the view that the formation of the Calvinist cell should be considered in the broad context of the Ukrainian national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries, a new assessment of the religious factor in public life proposed by the Ukrainian radical activists ( M. Drahomanov, I. Franko, M. Pavlik), and significant socio-political, national-cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the events of the First World War. Other researchers of Ukrainian Calvinism, who based their analysis on the confessional-polemical approach (I.Vlasovsky, M.Stepanovich), interpreted Protestantism in Ukraine as a product of Western cultural and religious influences, alien to Ukrainian spirituality and culture.


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