Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960 (eBook)

Emmanuel Marmaras is Professor at the Economic University of Athens, Greece where he teaches post-graduate courses in the programme ‘Statistic Methods in Real Estate’: Geography of Housing and Urban Planning. He has acted as head of the department of architecture at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece from 2010 to 2012. His main research interests are town planning, urban development, urban history, urban geography, preservation of historic urban environment, interwar planning and architecture, cycladic settlements, and residential tourism.

Contents.- Tables.- Figures.- Abbreviations.- Prologue.- Preface.- Introduction.- Part I The Reconstruction Question.- The British Town Planning on the eve of the Second World War.- The war damages and the problems of central areas - The war damages - The central area problems.- Innovations in planning theory and technique - The main town planning ideas - The new town planning techniques - The control of urban land uses - The control of building bulk - The control of building day-lighting.- Part II The Preparation of Planning Machinery.- The urban reconstruction machinery issue - The central planning authority: The case and the debate - The distribution of the industrial population: The case and the debate - The control of urban land: The case and the debate.- Administrative and statutory developments during the War - The first attempts to organise the reconstruction machinery - The formation of the non-physical reconstruction machinery - Developments in the physical reconstruction machinery.- Town planning legislation under the Coalition Government - The Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) Act, 1943 - The Town and Country Planning Act, 1944.- The 1947 Planning Act and the reaction to it - The Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 - The revision of the planning system in the 1950s by the Conservatives.- Part III Replanning London.- The Central Government policy for re-planning London.- The Independent Plans for London - The Modern Architects’ Research Society (MARS) plan - The Royal Academy (RA) plan - The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) plan.- The official Plans for London - The London County Council’s (LCC) plan - The Greater London (GL) plan - The County of London Development (CLD) plan.- Consequences and implementations in the planning of London by the proposed plans.- Part IV Redeveloping Central London.- The first ideas for re-planning the City of London - N.J. Aslan’s proposals for the City - F.J. Forty’s proposals for the City - The Holden-Holford plan for the City of London.- Comprehensive Projects for Central London - The St. Paul’s Precinct project - The Barbican project - The South Bank project - The Elephant and Castle project.- Epilogue.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.