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The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads explores how Americanisation influenced key approaches to town planning, from reconstruction after 1945 to the New Urbanism of the 1990s. Clapson pays particular attention to the relationship between urban sociological research and planning issues since the 1950s. He also addresses the ways in which American developers and planners of new communities looked to the British new towns and garden city movement for inspiration. Using a wide range of sources, from American Foundation Archives to town planning materials and urban sociologies, Anglo-American Crossroads shows that although some things went wrong in translation from the USA to Britain, there were also some important successes within a transatlantic dialogue that was more nuanced than a one-dimensional process of American hegemony.

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Anglo-American Crossroads
Anglo-American Crossroads
Urban Research and Planning in Britain, 19402010
Mark Clapson
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First published 2013
Mark Clapson, 2013
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers.
Mark Clapson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work.
No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the author.
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ePub ISBN: 978-1-4411-7474-1
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Contents
I am grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for a Research Fellowship Award in 2004 that made so much of the research for this book possible.
I would also like to thank the following for their invaluable assistance: John-Paul Evans of the American Embassy in London for his assistance with materials on the Special Housing Mission to Great Britain and on Eric H. Biddle. I am also grateful to the archivists and librarians at the Columbia Archives, Maryland; Ford Foundation Archives, New York; the London School of Economics Archive, Georgia; the National Archives II, USA, in Maryland; the National Archives in Kew, London; the Planned Communities Archive, George Mason University, Virginia, the Sir Frederic Osborn Archive, Welwyn Garden City, and staff of the Rockefeller Archive Center, New York State, near Sleepy Hollow.
The following archives have kindly granted permission to use their materials: Columbia Archives, Maryland; London School of Economics Archives; Planned Communities Archive, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University; and the Rockefeller Archives Centre, New York, which recently acquired the Ford Foundation Archives. Many thanks are also extended to Professor Murray Fraser for some very helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this book. The comments and suggestions of the two reviewers for Continuum were useful and influenced the shape of the chapters. Finally, I am grateful to Claire Lipscomb and Rhodri Mogford of Continuum for their assistance in the publication of Atlantic Crossings .
AIA
American Institute of Architects
BOB
Bureau of the Budget
BRF
British Road Federation
CAM
Columbia Archives, Maryland
CDP
Community Development Projects
CES
Centre for Environmental Studies
CUS
Centre for Urban Studies
FBE
Foundation for the Built Environment
FF
Ford Foundation
HLG
Housing and Local Government
HUD
Housing and Urban Development
ICS
Institute of Community Studies
ICWP
Inner Cities Working Party
IRR
Institute of Race Relations
JDAG
Joint Docklands Action Group
LDDC
London Docklands Development Corporation
LSE
London School of Economics
MHLG
Ministry of Housing and Local Government
MK
Milton Keynes
MKDC
Milton Keynes Development Corporation
NAII
National Archives II (USA)
OU
Open University
PCA
Planned Communities Archive
PEP
Political and Economic Planning
RAC
Rockefeller Archive Center
SHM
Special Housing Mission
TCPA
Town and Country Planning Association
TNA
The National Archives (England)
TPI
Town Planning Institute
UCL
University College, London
1936
Ford Foundation established
19426
Special Housing Mission to Great Britain
1944
Dudley Report published in Britain
1946
New Towns Act, Great Britain
1954
Institute of Community Studies, London, receives financial support from the Ford Foundation
1957
Centre for Urban Studies, in London, receives financial support from the Ford Foundation
1958
Ditchley Foundation established, England
1961
Gray Areas Program begins, USA, with Ford Foundation support
1961
Reston, Virginia founded
1963
Cross Keys, Baltimore Maryland founded
1963
Columbia, Maryland founded
1965
New Towns Act, Great Britain
1966
Centre for Environmental Studies, London, receives support from the Ford Foundation
1967
Milton Keynes New Town designated, Buckinghamshire
1969
Community Development Projects initiated, Britain
1977
Inner Cities Working Party established, Britain
19801
Riots in British cities
1981
London Docklands Development Corporation established
1988
Poundbury development plan initiated, England
Rationale
There are many good reasons for a study of the American influence on British urban development. First, there is a diverse and expanding field of research into Americanization in the twentieth century. and his magisterial volume Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998) a work concerned with the decades from 1880 to the outbreak of World War II. The title of this present book is meant to acknowledge the work of Rodgers while indicating a more modest focus on urban research and urban policy. And its geographical range does not, for the most part, include continental Europe or the European mainland. To be sure, Britain is a part of Europe and of the European Union, but this current book concentrates upon the United States of America and Britain. Rodgers was also concerned with the decades that led from the late nineteenth century to the outbreak of war at the end of the 1930s. This book begins where Rodgers drew his story to an end, namely the war of 193945. It is, hopefully, a contribution to the growing academic interest in transatlantic dialogues and policy formulations since World War II.
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