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Planning History .• .. +. • . + + ••••• • • • • •• + • • • Bulletin of the Planning History Group Vol. 14 No. 3 1992 Planning History Bulletin of the Contents Planning History Group Editorial 1 ISSN 0959 - 5805 Chairman's Message 2 Editor 3 Or Stephen V. Ward Notices School of Planning Oxford Polytechnic Articles 4 Gipsy Lane Headington Oxford OX3 OBP The Sage of the 'Suburb Salubrious' Mervyn Miller 4 Telephone: 0865 819421 Telex: G83147 VIA Fax: 0865 819559 'Public Building': Sam Bunton and Scotland's Modern Housing Revolution 13 Associate Editor for the Americas Miles Glendinning Professor Marc A. Weiss Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and A British Proposal for American Settlement: Granville Sharp's Preservation Plan for A Town and Township Columbia University Elwin C. Robison 23 410H Avery Hall New York, NY 10027 USA 27 Associate Editor for the Pacific Research Or Robert Freestone The Finnish Neighbourhood Unit from Tapiola to Pihlajarnaki School of Town Planning 27 University of New South Wales Ritta Hurme P 0 Box 1 Kensington, NSW 2033 The Accidental City: Writing the history of planning in Sydney Australia Paul Ashton 30 Production Design: Rob Woodward Reports 34 Word Processing: Sue Bartlett Printing: Middlesex Polytechnic Print Centre Planning History Workshop, Johannesburg John Muller 34 Plan~in~ Hi~tory is published three times a year fo: d1stnbutJon to members of the Planning European Association of Urban Histories, Amsterdam H1story Group. The Group as a body is not responsible for the views expressed and Robert Home 35 statements made by individuals writing or reporting in Planning History. No part of this Visions Revisited: OOCOMOMO-SCOTLAND, Glasgow publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the editor. David Whitham 36 Notes for Contributors Sources/Cartoons 2 41 The prime aim of Planning History is to increase an awareness of developments and ideas in Dacey's Dream: Up in the air and down to earth planning history in all parts of the world. In Rob Freestone 41 pursuit of this aim, contributions are invited from members and non-members alike for any section of the bulletin. Articles should normally Publications 46 not exceed 2500 words, and may well reflect work in progress. Photographs and other illustrations may be included. Contributions Treasurer's Report 49 submitted on a disc, with accompanying hard copy, are to be encouraged; please contact the editor for format details. Planning History Vol. 14 No. 3 Editorial by modernism and Glaswegian municipal admira tion for New York. Again therefore there is an Editorial international (and divergent national) perspective. lhis article derives from a conference by a relatively In this issue, the Chairman, Gordon Cherry, con new organization that we hope to report more fully firms the shift that we have been considering over on in a forthcoming issue -OCX:OMOMO. the last 18 months, the change in the name and Headquartered in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, but character of the Planning History Group. Gordon with an international membership, it is concerned tells me that he has received many intimations of with the DOcumentation and COnservation of the support to the course of action signalled in the recent MOdem MOvement in architecture (and of course mail circulation to the Group membership. There planning). David Whitham's report in the present have apparently been no objections to the intended issue on the whole conference gives a little more changes. It would of course be surprising if there information on it, including contact addresses. were. We have long been aware of the international dimensions of our common activity. It is certainly Much of the rest of the issue has a much more firmly something which has been reflected in the pages of international flavour, however. Elwin Robison this magazine for many years and its more academic provides a valuable insight on early American and younger, relative, Planning Perspectives, since its colonial town planning in a long-delayed publication inception. from the 1991 Oxford AESOP Conference. And we have notices from the USA and Australia, conference In that sense the changes to Planning conse History reports from South Africa and the Netherlands and quent on the translation of the Planning History reports of research from Finland and Australia. Group to a new International Planning History There is also a fascinating piece on the Australian Society will not be dramatic. Perhaps the most planning cartoon by Rob Frees tone. (IncidentaJJy, noticeable immediate shift will be that its sub-title readers with access to the AustraliJin Plnnner maga will be changed to reflect the new organizational zine should also not miss Rob's fascinating recent name, and some of the internal cover details will also account of the rise and fall of the Sydney Green Belt be altered. In the slightly longer term though a new as told by cartoons. Planners have clearly been editorial board will appear to ensure a more system frequent targets for the cartoonist's pen in Australia, atic feeding through of non-UK material to the perhaps more than any other country. I wonder. present editor. lhis already occurs for Australia and Readers may wish to address this question by New Zealand, thanks to the great diligence of our bringing forward examples of planning cartoons Pacific editor, Rob Freestone, whose efforts can be from other countries. Planning History will of course seen in the present issue. The hope is that we can be glad to print the results). identify similarly committed individuals for other parts of the world, an idea which Rob himself has Meanwhile the editor of what is, for the moment long pressed. The editor would welcome suggestions at least, the Bulletin of the Planning History Group, of suitably enthusiastic and committed individuals. I wishes you a Happy New Year. want to create an active editorial team, so that ultimately the magazine will be truly international in Stephen V Ward its editing, not just its content. Paradoxically the present issue might seem to have much more of a UK flavour than of late. We take the o~portunity to celebrate the publication of Mervyn Mtller and Stuart Gray's book on Hampstead Gar den ~uburb, o~e of the great achievements of early Enghsh planrung. There was not enough time to prepare a review of the book itself for the present tssue. As Mervyn reminds us, however, the suburb's impact was international. And non-UK readers will receive an important lesson in important cultural and national distinctions within the United Kingdom in Miles Glendinning's article on Sam Bunton. In a fascinating account he portrays the battle betweenan English-~spired ~ecentralist strategy for Glasgow and the high denstty big city solution, inspired both 1 Planning History Vol. 14 No. 3 Planning History Vol. U No. 3 Chalnnans Message Notices Shun-ich.i Watanabe, School of Architecture, the history of urban, regional, or community plan ScienceUniversity of Tokyo. ning. Proposals may be submitted for either indi Chairmans's Notices vidual papers or for thematic sessions with two or SACRPH representative: Larry Gerckens, three presenters. In recognition of the Centennial Cindnnati. Celebration of the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, sessions focusing on the HISTORY ASSOCIATION Message UHA representative: Michael Ebner, Department of THE URBAN turn-of-the-century origins of planning or on plan History, Lake Forest College, Ulinois. Department of History ning in Chicago are especially welcome. (Sessions do Lake Forest College will be 1.5 or 2.0 hours in length.) Members of the Planning History Group will recall 555 N Sheridan Road that I wrote to all on 30 October to intimate a Welcome to the International Planning History Society! Lake Forest, IL 60045-2399 Those submitting proposals should send five (5) number of recommendations of the Interim Board of page abstract with a title and a one USA copies of a one- Management with regard to certain institutional page author vita for each participant by MARCH 1, Cordon Cherry Phone: 708-735-5135 changes for the future. I have received some letters 1993 to: of unqualified support; I have received no ob December 1992. Fax: 708-735-6291 jections. This cheers the Interim Board because the Professor Patricia Burgess, Program Chair tory Association is conducting its way forward for an important departure in our The Urban His Planning History Conference organisation is now clear. fourth annual round of prize competitions for Dept of Community and Regional Planning scholarly distinction. Room 126, Design On 1 January 1993 the Planning History Group will Iowa State University become the lntematiional Planning History Society 1. Best doctoral dissertation in urban history, (IPHS). without geographic restriction, completed during Ames 1992. Iowa 50011 USA The Secretary / Treasurer will shortly be arranging for the election of a Council, by and from paid-up 2. Best book, non-North American urban history, Phone: (515) 294-7759 members of the Society. The Council will then published during 1991 or 1992 (edited volumes Fax: (515) 294-9755 proceed to elect a Board of Management, when the ineligible). stand down. By the summer of Interim Board will Notification of final acceptance (contingent on 1993 these steps should have been completed. 3. Best book, North American urban history, published during 1992 (edited volumes ineligible. receipt of the one-page author vita) will be early The Editor of Planning History will set up and chair May of1993. an Editorial Board. 4. Best journal article in urban history, without geographic restriction, published during 1992. Organisational eo-sponsors of the conference in clude: The Conference Convenor will be making arrange ments for an International Conference: the first is Deadline for receipt of submissions is June 15, 1993. The Urban History Association expected to be held in Hong Kong in late June 1994.