High modernism in the Arctic: planning Frobisher Bay and Inuvik

Farish, Matthew; Lackenbauer, P. Whitney

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2009.02.002

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“…A contrasting approach has been to force the closure of settlements deemed particularly unsustainable, as occurred in Newfoundland in Canada in the 1960s [11]. Communities targeted for closure have proven surprisingly resistant, often due to the cultural ties of Indigenous people [12]. Weeden [13] proposed a splitting of populations, with Indigenous people left to continue traditional living practices (presumably sustainable ones), and non-Indigenous people acting as temporary residents to work within the new economies (often centred on resource extraction) of remote areas.…”

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Virtual Realities: How Remote Dwelling Populations Become More Remote Over Time despite Technological Improvements

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Cleary

2010

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Abstract:For those who have access to them, technologies of various sorts play a key role in maintaining connections between small and geographically dispersed settlements and to the wider World. For technologies to work in remote areas, there must be a framework of adaptability which ensures that users can adapt their practices to suit the new technology, technologies can be customised for local conditions, and an institutional infrastructure (including a regulatory environment) allows these adaptations to occur. In recent times, remote Australia's -power to persuade‖ government to consider its needs when designing regulatory environments has diminished as a result of the changing nature of remote economies. This paper uses two case examples-that of air transport technology and that of communications technology-to demonstrate how a poor regulatory environment in effect increases the isolation of remote settlements. In the case of air transport, over regulation has made the cost of adoption and access too high for many remote dwellers. In the case of communications technology, de-regulation has made it difficult for remote dwellers to demand equity of access to infrastructure. We conclude by suggesting that regulatory systems need to be more aware of the unique conditions facing remote populations. Research into the persistently low rates of technology adoption in remote areas needs to be more cognizant of the regulatory adaptability aspect.

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Virtual Realities: How Remote Dwelling Populations Become More Remote Over Time despite Technological Improvements

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Cleary

2010

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“…The heritage of the Cold War is attracting increasing international interest, particularly in relation to sites in the United States, Canada and Europe (Department of Defense 1994;Cocroft 2001;Schofield, Johnson, and Beck 2002;Vanderbilt 2002;English Heritage 2003;Cocroft and Thomas 2004;Schofield and Cocroft 2007;Farish and Lackenbauer 2009;Schofield 2009). While the literature pays considerable attention to technological legacies, it offers fewer insights into the social infrastructure which supported Cold War programs and even less into the contribution of town planning in shaping this enabling environment.…”

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“…Appreciation of the impacts of the Cold War and of the sites and artefacts that it spawned is still evolving as research broadens into new and cross-disciplinary fields (Vanderbilt 2002;Schofield and Cocroft 2007;Farish and Lackenbauer 2009;McNeill and Unger 2010). Alongside enquiries from any one or a combination of viewpoints are investigations into the physical remains or 'monuments' of the Cold War.…”

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“…As workforce accommodation desirably needed to be of sufficient quality to attract and retain appropriately skilled staff, especially in International Journal of Heritage Studies 545 isolated and environmentally harsh settings, governments turned to planning and design professionals, both in-house and consultants, to create community settings which would compensate for the isolation (James and Freestone 2007;Farish and Lackenbauer 2009). The layout of new planned communities and residential estates developed specifically for Cold War purposes drew on contemporary thought in ways that made them central to both the post-war reconstruction drive for a new social, physical and economic order and the theoretical and practical concerns of modernism (Greenhalgh 1990;Gold 1997).…”

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Cold War heritage and the planned community: Woomera Village in outback Australia

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Freestone

Iwanicki

2012

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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The heritage of the Cold War is attracting increasing international interest. Much of that revolves around technological legacies; less attention has been paid to the community infrastructure which supported defence research, weapons testing and military installations. Security and operational logistics meant that research and development was conducted not only in restricted settings but also in often geographically remote situations. An archetypal example is the Woomera Rocket Range in outback South Australia, where long-range weapons were trialled from 1947 under a joint project between the British and Australian governments. Woomera Village, established as a planned residential facility to support personnel employed on the Range, survives today in a similar role, but with a population greatly diminished from its late-1960s heyday. This paper introduces the Village against the backdrop of Cold War heritage and spatial planning ideology, surveys its raison d'être and growth as a Cold War town, and considers its modern-day status as a heritage place and sustainable community.

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“…In Canada, these philosophies helped imagine the widespread rearrangement of nature like the St. Lawrence Seaway project, 27 massive urban slum clearances and renewal programs, 28 or the relocation of entire populations. 29 These projects were supported by modern planning principles and state-of-the-art technologies, and were overseen by university-trained technocrats tasked with creating an organized, rationalized, and simplified set of social and economic relations between citizens, the state, and nature. Arguably, the reach and power of the state was vastly expanded during this period, as previously "undeveloped" regions of Canada were incorporated into the national economy and as the state took a deeper interest in the welfare and social planning of citizens.…”

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