Class cities: Classics, utopianism and urban planning in early twentieth-century Britain

Review of periodical literature published in 2012

“…Hewitt produced two articles on the subject, one an overview of the development of civic societies prior to the 1960s ( Urban History ), the other a case study of the Civic Survey of Greater London carried out between 1915 and 1919 by a group of planners based at the Royal Institute of British Architects ( Journal of Historical Geography ). Alston probes a similar theme, recovering the differential appropriation of the cities and civic ideals of classical antiquity and how these informed debates in the early town planning movement. Meanwhile, Whyte provides a critical assessment of the 1910 International Town Planning Conference held in London, arguing that for all its transnational credentials and scope it also served as a vehicle for the articulation of local ambitions and national peculiarities.…”