Stevenage Housing Survey
Author: Valerie Ann Karn
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 116
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Author: Valerie Ann Karn
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 116
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Published: 1970
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: V. A. Karn
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 105
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Orlans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1136245855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Volume XIX in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1952. In November 1946, the British Government founded the New Town of Stevenage, thirty miles north of London, as part of a long-term programme to move over a million people from the metropolis. This book tells the story of this New Town: the history of the decentralization policy, of the existing town of old Stevenage, and of the first four years of the new development; the sociology of the New Town plan and of the strong local opposition which aroused nation-wide interest and led to a court case that almost stopped the project; the nature of the Development Corporation established to plan and build the New Town and the difficulties experienced in its relations with other Government departments and the Stevenage District Council. The book is, therefore, an historical and sociological study of a pioneering Government venture and of its impact upon a small town. It represents the results of interviewing, observation, and documentary research conducted over an eighteen-month period from October 1948.
Author: Robert Mullan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-02-23
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1000573893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of particular aspects of the politics of planning a new town, this book, originally published in 1980, covers events from the inception of Stevenage in 1946 up to 1978. As a case study, the focus is on two expansion schemes, which were intended to extend the designated area of the town, and on the public protest that the two schemes engendered. Emphasis is placed on the structure and action of three groups of people: the ‘urban managers’ – the Stevenage Development Corporation; Stevenage industrialists; and local organisations engaged in protest. The theoretical focus is on the thesis of ‘urban managerialism’: the book examines the constraints placed upon both the structure and action of the Stevenage urban managers over the previous thirty years. In showing how matters work in practice, it directs light on issues of theory which other sociologists of planning, such as Pickvance and Castells, had only discussed in the abstract. The author argues that the experience of Stevenage illustrates a case of urban policy (particularly in housing and employment) being determined by the interests of industry alone, while at the same time pointing to the interrelationship of Stevenage industry and the town’s Development Corporation. He examines the membership, strategies and aims of the various protest groups involved over the years, and casts considerable doubt on the notion that the groups were ‘for democracy’ and ‘against bureaucracy’. Finally, he concludes, controversially, that in Stevenage’s case, public participation and protest were basically irrelevant to the decision-making processes.
Author: Jon Lawrence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0198779534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that they are wrong, and that whilst community has changed, it is far from dead. It is time to embrace new communities, and let go of nostalgia for the past.
Author: Stevenage Development Corporation
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 89
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Federal Housing Administration
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Clapson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780719041358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the phenomenon of the mass movement of people away from town and city centres to live in new estates and towns built since World War II. Using sociology, town-planning materials, oral history and other sources, this book examines the making of modern suburbia.
Author: Patrick Abercrombie
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 444
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