Patrick Geddes and Town Planning

Hysler-Rubin, Noah

doi:10.4324/9781315811758

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“…Drawing on work emerging from planning history, this paper contributes to the understanding of the complex multidirectional flows through which urban expertise was produced and applied in the mid‐ to late 20th century. Imperial powers continued to have a strong influence on late colonial and post‐colonial states, including their towns and cities (Home ; Hysler‐Rubin ). However, in the context of decolonisation and the Cold War, urban expertise also came via the socialist bloc (Stanek ), from other ‘Third World’ countries and from international organisations such as UNESCO (d'Auria ).…”

Section: Globalising Urban Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Though planners had been involved in international projects in earlier eras (e.g. Patrick Geddes’ work in India and Palestine; Hysler‐Rubin ), in this period there existed for the first time a sizeable global community of urban experts, drawing their ideas and policies from their experiences across the world (Lagae and De Raedt ). This community embraced not only architects and planners, but also engineers, administrators, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists with interests in urban questions (Fredenucci ; Naylor ).…”

Section: Globalising Urban Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

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Post‐colonial careering and urban policy mobility: between Britain and Nigeria, 1945–1990

Craggs¹,

Neate

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper sets out the value of the concept of 'careering' to understanding the global mobility of urban policy across historical and contemporary contexts. Through a case study of one colonial and post-colonial career in urban development, we demonstrate the material and ideological connections between late colonial development in Nigeria, British reconstruction and international consultancy. Empirically, the paper provides novel postcolonial perspectives on Britain's post-Second World War reconstruction spanning the mid-to late 20th century, globalising the geographies of the British new town. Conceptually, the paper argues that careering provides a valuable tool for progressing the study of urban expertise and its mobility in four ways. First, it provides a tool for connecting geographically distant urban development projects. Second, careering allows us to explore intersections between urban development policies and geopolitical transformations. Third, careering allows us to see the impact of ideas, skills, experiences, affiliations and contacts formed at different stages of a career on later professional practice, slowing down and lengthening out our understandings of the processes though which urban policy is made mobile. Fourth, careering as a method demonstrates the continued value of biographical approaches to urban policy mobility, highlighting in particular professional lives worked with colleagues and contacts rather than in isolation, and foregrounding the everyday embodied nature of urban expertise. The article concludes by suggesting such approaches could be productive for the writing of new post-colonial histories of geography and its allied disciplines.

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Section: Globalising Urban Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Globalising Urban Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%