The Skeffington Committee was appointed in 1968 to look at ways of involving the wider
public in the formative stages of local development plans. It was the first concerted effort to …

Engaging the wider public in plan-making is a major concern of contemporary planning,
although most authors date this to key texts of the late 1960s. This article reviews the scale …

In April 1960 Patrick Gordon Walker addressed the British House of Commons as part of a
debate on road traffic. His theme was visionary. The car, Walker announced, is the major …

Nostalgia has historically been negatively characterised by desire to reconnect with an
idealised past lost to the 'destructive'forces of modernity, but studies across the social …

This paper reflects on and challenges existing paradigms around movement and
mobilisation in and with the city. This focus is provoked by a community arts project called …

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching
also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores …

This paper examines the topic of changes in central parts of large cities in Poland that have
occurred in the post-war period, which can be divided into two stages with different factors …

[T] he only fitting tribute that could be paid to the devotion and courage of a brave people [is]
to rebuild our City in a manner worthy of its citizens.… Few of us will see the completion of …

The recent growth and gentrification of many cities has shifted the electoral and financial
power, leaving low-income households with few options through which to claim rights to the …

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday
Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration focuses on such debates and experiences …