Redbrick Academic Geography

Slater, Terry R.

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“…Bewdley's led to significant disagreement with the County Council as highways authority, probably contributing to Williams-Ellis' disengagement and withdrawal. Warwick's outer bypass was -much later -built more or less to Abercrombie's principles, though Slater noted that the proposals for the [outer] by-pass are carefully related to, and use, the fine grain of the countryside -existing hedgerows, woods, paths and lanes, yet his proposals for the historic town ignore the fine grain of streets, lanes, plots and buildings, particularly where road plans are concerned [107].…”

Section: Themes In the Plansmentioning

confidence: 98%

Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post‐war Britain

Larkham¹,

Pendlebury²

2008

Planning Perspectives

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The majority of studies of British post-war reconstruction planning have focused on the better-known plans for larger towns and cities, yet many much smaller places were also represented in the tremendous outpouring of plans in the period c. 1951-2. This paper discusses the context of the smaller town replanning, using four very different unbombed towns and plans as exemplars (Bewdley, Durham, Todmorden and Warwick). Uninformative and incomplete records still preclude explicit discussion of why consultants were chosen in each of these cases and, indeed, small towns seem unusually prone to engage expensive consultants. Key common themes in the plans included road provision and housing conditions; indeed, the concerns of these small-town plans are little different from those of larger, and badlybombed, places -perhaps because consultants were used. However, the removal of planning powers from all of these authorities under the 1947 Act meant that implementation of expensive plans was delayed and substantially amended: perhaps the bandwagon of replanning was not worth the expense?

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Section: Themes In the Plansmentioning

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Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post‐war Britain

Larkham¹,

Pendlebury²

2008

Planning Perspectives

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“…. Moreover, in Birmingham, at one of the relatively newly established geography departments of the early 20th-century ''redbrick universities'' (see Slater 1998), Buchanan would also have been introduced to a broad range of intellectual influences. [in] his work on Natal, [and] Nigeria and his feeling for anti-establishment groups.''…”

Section: The Naissance Of Tropical Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[in] his work on Natal, [and] Nigeria and his feeling for anti-establishment groups.'' Moreover, in Birmingham, at one of the relatively newly established geography departments of the early 20th-century ''redbrick universities'' (see Slater 1998), Buchanan would also have been introduced to a broad range of intellectual influences. As Michael Wise (2001, 113) recalls, at the time, The syllabus prescribed by the Faculty of Arts for Honours in Geography provided for a broad course of study involving, in addition to the geography courses, work over the first two years in medieval history, modern history (based heavily on a study of the French revolution), economic history, economics and geology.…”

Section: The Naissance Of Tropical Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Degeneration of Tropical Geography

Power

Sidaway

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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How did colonial and tropical geography as practiced in the aftermath of World War II become development geography by the 1970s? We excavate the genealogy of development geography, relating it to geopolitical, economic, and social traumas of decolonization. We examine how revolutionary pressures and insurgencies, coupled with the eclipse of formal colonialism, led to the degeneration and displacement of a particular way of writing geographical difference of ''the tropics.'' A key objective here is to complicate and enrich understandings of paradigmatic shifts and epistemological transitions, and to elaborate archaeologies of development knowledges and their association with geography. While interested in such a big picture, we also approach this story in part through engagements with the works of a series of geographers whose scholarship and teaching took them to the tropics, among them Keith Buchanan, a pioneering radical geographer trained at the School of Geography of the University of Birmingham, England, who later worked in South Africa, Nigeria, London, Singapore (as an external examiner), and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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“…Central to these are learned societies, whose roles include not only holding meetings and publishing research findings but also defending the discipline in the 'territorial conflicts' that characterize academic life (Becher and Trowler, 2001) and promoting its interests when changes are on the agenda. For UK geography, this important role is exemplified by RGS promotion of university geography teaching in the period 1860-1930(Scargill, 1976Stoddart, 1986;Slater, 1988) and the GA's regarding its role in the country's schools (Balchin, 1993;Rawling, 2001;Walford, 2001). The Institute of British Geographers (IBG) excelled at the 'internal' activities of convening conferences and publishing journals for some 65 years after its formation in 1932 but played little part in 'public relations'.…”

Section: Academic Disciplines Universities and Learned Societiesmentioning

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Institutions and disciplinary fortunes: two moments in the history of UK geography in the 1960s I: geography in the ‘plateglass universities’

Johnston¹

2004

Progress in Human Geography

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Geography grew rapidly within British universities during the 1950s and 1960s. At the beginning of the latter decade, however, the discipline was excluded from most of the new universities established to meet expanding student demand. This first essay in a pair looks at why such an ostensibly successful discipline was not incorporated in the plans for those new institutions, focusing on the external view of geography at the time and on its lack of effective champions in the highest ‘corridors of power’, notably its learned societies.

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Redbrick Academic Geography

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post‐war Britain

Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post‐war Britain

The Degeneration of Tropical Geography

Institutions and disciplinary fortunes: two moments in the history of UK geography in the 1960s I: geography in the ‘plateglass universities’

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