Boldness diminished? The post-war battle to replan a bomb-damaged provincial city

Essex, Stephen; Brayshay, Mark

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“…The perceived slowness of implementation, the changing focus of planning ideas and communications through development plans, and perhaps opposition such as in Hull led to a very distinct watering-down of the types of proposals seen in the early outline reconstruction plans, some of which had been a very radical response to the opportunity of destruction (Essex & Brayshay, 2008;Hasegawa, 1999). Nevertheless, many of the buildings that eventually lined the new street layouts were largely modern, a radical and unfamiliar departure.…”

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Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain’s War-Damaged Cities

Larkham

Adams

2022

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This article presents an overview of Second World War bomb damage to British towns and cities and a systematic evaluation of the relationship between damage, revisioning, replanning, and actual reconstruction in a sample of cities—Bath, Birmingham, and Hull. Two were severely affected by aerial bombing as port/industrial targets, and the third for propaganda purposes as a historical city. Two had extensive plans produced by eminent consultants (both involving Patrick Abercrombie) but the city managers of the third did not support “big plans.” Birmingham, without a specific plan, rebuilt extensively and relatively quickly. Hull’s plan was disliked locally and virtually vanished. Bath was repaired rather than rebuilt. These contrasting experiences have shaped the contemporary city via subsequent generations of replanning (not all of which was implemented) and, in Birmingham’s case, the demolition of major reconstruction investments after relatively short lifespans. The article demonstrates the difficulty of conceptualising a generic approach to post-catastrophe reconstruction and the problems of such large-scale change over a short period for the longer-term effective functioning of the city.

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Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain’s War-Damaged Cities

Larkham

Adams

2022

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“…Some interesting publications have discussed these aspects of government policy. Essex and Brayshay discuss the postwar redevelopment of Plymouth. J.…”

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Local Matters: Queer Scenes in 1960s Manchester, Plymouth, and Brighton

Cook¹

2020

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This article compares queer social scenes in the 1960s in three English towns and cities: Brighton and Plymouth on the south coast and Manchester in the northwest. It considers how queer experience in these places was affected by local identities, demographics, geographies, and socioeconomic circumstances and so demonstrates how and why the local matters to queer scenes and lives, even in the midst of wider burgeoning mass and connective cultures. A focus on London has dominated analysis of both the “Swinging Sixties” and queer lives in England; this article shows how different queer experience outside that city could be. Despite multiple resonances and connections, London's queer story cannot stand in for that of other places.

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Boldness diminished? The post-war battle to replan a bomb-damaged provincial city

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain’s War-Damaged Cities

Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain’s War-Damaged Cities

Review of periodical literature published in 2008

Local Matters: Queer Scenes in 1960s Manchester, Plymouth, and Brighton

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