Lessons from the British and French New Towns
Paradise Lost?
Published on 18. November 2020
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-83909-431-6 (ISBN)
Description
Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise
Lost? explores the evolution of the New Towns in both France and the UK
from several perspectives including public policy, sociology, geography and
heritage.
UK and French New Towns have many similarities in terms of
the role of the national state in tackling urgent problems of housing and urban
growth and in promoting innovative design and architecture. These innovative planned settlements have
left a contested and complex legacy, but are once again on the political and
urbanisation agenda in Europe, where a push for growth of housing and the
desire for sustainability are the new drivers of urban planning and design.
After years of the private development market being seen as the principal
instrument of urban growth and planning, it is time to assess the urban legacy
and the heritage of the UK and French New Towns. This book contrasts their
evolution on both sides of the Channel and shows what can be learned about post
war state planning and the future planning of new settlements.
Lost? explores the evolution of the New Towns in both France and the UK
from several perspectives including public policy, sociology, geography and
heritage.
UK and French New Towns have many similarities in terms of
the role of the national state in tackling urgent problems of housing and urban
growth and in promoting innovative design and architecture. These innovative planned settlements have
left a contested and complex legacy, but are once again on the political and
urbanisation agenda in Europe, where a push for growth of housing and the
desire for sustainability are the new drivers of urban planning and design.
After years of the private development market being seen as the principal
instrument of urban growth and planning, it is time to assess the urban legacy
and the heritage of the UK and French New Towns. This book contrasts their
evolution on both sides of the Channel and shows what can be learned about post
war state planning and the future planning of new settlements.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83909-431-6 (9781839094316)
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Paradise Lost?
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Persons
David Fee is a Professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle and head of CREC, the Sorbonne Nouvelle research centre on contemporary Britain. He specialises in the study of housing policies in the UK.
Bob Colenutt is an Associate Lecturer at the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He is a researcher on commercial property development and the impact this has on communities.
Sabine Coady Schaebitz is Associate Professor for Architecture at Coventry University. Her research and professional engagement focuses on cultural heritage and architectural and urban history.
Bob Colenutt is an Associate Lecturer at the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He is a researcher on commercial property development and the impact this has on communities.
Sabine Coady Schaebitz is Associate Professor for Architecture at Coventry University. Her research and professional engagement focuses on cultural heritage and architectural and urban history.
Content
Part 1- The New Towns and Policy Makers Chapter 1. Reinventing the Healthy Garden City: Ebbsfleet's learning from the New Towns; Elanor Warwick
Chapter 2. Loss and Longing: Whatever happened to the Egalitarian Ethos of the UK New Towns; Bob Colenutt
Chapter 3. Unpacking the Official View: Four Myths on British New Towns; Helena Rivera
Chapter 4. Beyond your Wildest Dreams? Building New Towns in France Today; David Fee
Part 2- The New Towns and their Residents
Chapter 5. Ways of knowing the Landscape of the New Towns: A Lefebvrian Analysis; Susan Fitzpatrick
Chapter 6. The Suburbanity Urbanity of New Towns: Everyday Life in Milton Keynes and Cergy Pontoise; Ivan Nio
Chapter 7. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: Lessons learned from the Years 1965-2019; Daniele Gardrat and Frederic Theule
Part 3- The New Towns in their Wider Regional and International Context
Chapter 8. The London New Towns in their Changing Regional Context; Tony Champion
Chapter 9. Planning the World's New Towns- A Tale of Two Countries, 1975-2013; Clement Orillard and Stephen Ward
Chapter 10. Learning from the Contrasting Histories and Trajectories of Harlow and Thamesmead; Julia Deltoro-Soto, Stephen Marshall
Part 4- The New Towns and Heritage
Chapter 11. Public Art in British New Towns: The Past, Present and Future; Alina Congreve
Chapter 12. Public Art in French New Towns: From Experiments to Heritage; Loic Vadelorge
Chapter 13. A Tangible Utopia: Genesis of and Experiments in the French New Towns; Catherine Blain
Chapter 14. A controversial Heritage: New Towns and the problematic legacy of Modernism; Sabine Coady Schaebitz
Chapter 2. Loss and Longing: Whatever happened to the Egalitarian Ethos of the UK New Towns; Bob Colenutt
Chapter 3. Unpacking the Official View: Four Myths on British New Towns; Helena Rivera
Chapter 4. Beyond your Wildest Dreams? Building New Towns in France Today; David Fee
Part 2- The New Towns and their Residents
Chapter 5. Ways of knowing the Landscape of the New Towns: A Lefebvrian Analysis; Susan Fitzpatrick
Chapter 6. The Suburbanity Urbanity of New Towns: Everyday Life in Milton Keynes and Cergy Pontoise; Ivan Nio
Chapter 7. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: Lessons learned from the Years 1965-2019; Daniele Gardrat and Frederic Theule
Part 3- The New Towns in their Wider Regional and International Context
Chapter 8. The London New Towns in their Changing Regional Context; Tony Champion
Chapter 9. Planning the World's New Towns- A Tale of Two Countries, 1975-2013; Clement Orillard and Stephen Ward
Chapter 10. Learning from the Contrasting Histories and Trajectories of Harlow and Thamesmead; Julia Deltoro-Soto, Stephen Marshall
Part 4- The New Towns and Heritage
Chapter 11. Public Art in British New Towns: The Past, Present and Future; Alina Congreve
Chapter 12. Public Art in French New Towns: From Experiments to Heritage; Loic Vadelorge
Chapter 13. A Tangible Utopia: Genesis of and Experiments in the French New Towns; Catherine Blain
Chapter 14. A controversial Heritage: New Towns and the problematic legacy of Modernism; Sabine Coady Schaebitz