Differenz by Design. Milton Keynes and New Town Epistemologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-172
Author(s):  
Lauren Piko
Keyword(s):  
New Town ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL KERSWILL ◽  
ANN WILLIAMS

Koineization – the development of a new, mixed variety following dialect contact – has well-documented outcomes. However, there have been few studies of the phenomenon actually in progress. This article describes the development of a new variety in the English New Town of Milton Keynes, designated in 1967. The article is structured around eight “principles” that relate the process of koineization to its outcomes. Recordings were made of 48 Milton Keynes-born children in three age groups (4, 8, and 12), the principal caregiver of each child, and several elderly locally born residents. Quantitative analysis of ten phonetic variables suggests that substantial but not complete focusing occurs in the child generation. The lack of linguistic continuity in the New Town is demonstrated, and the time scale of koineization there is discussed. Finally, it is shown that demography and the social-network characteristics of individuals are crucial to the outcomes of koineization.


Author(s):  
Odisséia Aguiar Campos
Keyword(s):  
New Town ◽  

O presente artigo compõe um dos eixos da pesquisa “Teorias Urbanísticas e Novas Cidades: documentação e pesquisa sobre a concepção do projeto urbanístico de Palmas-TO”, e visa dar continuidade de uma atividade investigativa que teve início em 2011 na UFT. Considerando a escassez de estudos e pesquisas de natureza acadêmica sobre a “última capital planejada do século XX no mundo”, o presente artigo pretende aprofundar-se sobre programas nacionais europeus de criação de novas cidades pós-Brasília, tais como: i) a experiência de Novas Cidades na Inglaterra, “New Town Programme”, em especial o plano para a cidade Milton Keynes, a principal referência urbanística internacional assumida pelos autores do projeto de Palmas, e ii) sobre o Plano de Almere, nova cidade do Programa “Nouvelle Villes” francês, influência não assumida pelos autores, mas sempre lembrada por pesquisadores. Além destas, pesquisou-se ainda sobre a proposta de urbanização de “Coral Ridge”, na Flórida, nos EUA, experiência objeto de visita de campo prévia a elaboração do projeto de Palmas pelos co-autores de Palmas. Palavras-chave: Urbanismo, Modernidade, Pós-Modernidade e Novas cidades.


1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTHONY LEWIS ◽  
JOHN LOWREY
Keyword(s):  

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Currell

Showing how ‘modernist cosmopolitanism’ coexisted with an anti-cosmopolitan municipal control this essay looks at the way utopian ideals about breeding better humans entered into new town and city planning in the early twentieth century. An experiment in eugenic garden city planning which took place in Strasbourg, France, in the 1920s provided a model for modern planning that was keenly observed by the international eugenics movement as well as city planners. The comparative approach taken in this essay shows that while core beliefs about degeneration and the importance of eugenics to improve the national ‘body’ were often transnational and cosmopolitan, attempts to implement eugenic beliefs on a practical level were shaped by national and regional circumstances that were on many levels anti-cosmopolitan. As a way of assuaging the tensions between the local and the global, as well as the traditional with the modern, this unique and now forgotten experiment in eugenic city planning aimed to show that both preservation and progress could succeed at the same time.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Aimilios Michael ◽  
Christos Hadjichristos ◽  
F. Bougiatioti ◽  
A. Oikonomou
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
Marco Capitanio

The aging of Japanese society will inevitably restructure Tokyo’s spatial organization in the coming decades. Population loss will manifest itself unevenly, being most dramatic in peripheral areas—where ca. 87% of Greater Tokyo Area’s population lives—triggering a gradual spatial restructuring. Several scholars have tackled this issue from a geographical and planning perspective. From an architect’s viewpoint, such researches build a theoretical foundation upon which a more concrete investigation should be done, since the question of how liveability at the architectural and urban design scale could be tackled remains an open one. This paper focuses on one representative case study: Tama New Town, some 30km west of Tokyo Station. The emphasis is on four liveability factors relating to urban morphology, embedded in a wider socio-economic context: density/compactness, diversity of uses, walkability and green/water space. The significance of the research is threefold. On a theoretical level, we have assessed how urban design physical factors impact liveability in Tokyo’s peripheral areas. On a methodological level, we have tested workable methods that can be used by architects and urban designers to analyze neighborhood liveability in both quantitative and qualitative terms. On a practical level, we have provided new data and information about Tama New Town for the use of local municipalities and groups, suggesting strategies to address existing problems and highlighting potentials to be exploited.


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