Experimental Planning after the Blitz. Non-governmental Planning Initiativesand Post-war Reconstruction in Coventry and Rotterdam, 1940–1955

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ID12858859
AuthorsStefan Couperu (0000-0002-2387-1453, University of Groningen, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume13
Issue4
Pages516-533
Publication date2015-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Modern European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1611-8944 • E-ISSN: 2631-9764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.17104/1611-8944-2015-4-516
OpenAlexW2501348140
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

Experimental Planning after the Blitz. Non-governmental Planning Initiatives and Post-war Reconstruction in Coventry and Rotterdam, 1940-1955 This article probes into two non-governmental planning initiatives in the bombed cities of Coventry and Rotterdam. It articulates planning practices by non-state actors at the local level during the 1940s and early 1950s. These practices comprise a set of alternative visions on urban reconstruction and the regeneration of the urban community. Most of these social planning experiments were thwarted by the authorised planning schemes of public authorities from the early 1950s onwards. However, in engaging with recent historiography on post-war urban planning, these non-governmental experiments disclose that urban reconstruction and planning was not an uncontested or monopolised top-down endeavour that was initiated exclusively by public authorities and professional planners in the 1940s

Civil engineering · Historiography · Political science · Public participation · Sociology · State (computer science · Urban planning · Vision · Engineering · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Public Administration

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