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1991 Vol.13 No3 Planning History • + • • • • • + + ••••• • • • • •• + •• • Bulletin of the Planning History Group Vol. 13 No. 3 1991 Planning History Bulletin of the Planning History Group Contents Editor Dr Stephen V. Ward School of Planning Oxford Polytechnic Gipsy Lane Editorial 1 Headington Oxford OX3 OBP Letters 2 Telephone: 0865 819421 Telex: G83147 VIA Notices 3 Fax: 0865 819559 Articles 5 Associate Editor for the Americas· Professor Marc A. Weiss Early Metropolitan Planning in Perth, Western Australia 5 Graduate School of Architecture, Planni ng and P. McManus and 0 . Yiftachel Preservation Columbia University 410H Avery Hall Origins of Segregatory Urban Planning in South Africa, c. 1900-1940 8 New York, NY 10027 A. Mabin USA Associate Editor for the Pacific Research 17 Dr Robert Freestone School of Town Planning Planning in Milan at the End of the 19th Century: The Contribution University of New South Wales of 17 P 0 Box 1 Research Study Kensington, NSW 2033 C. Morandi Australia An Atlas of Historic Centres in Latin America: Brazil 21 Production G. Piccina to Design: Rob Woodward Word Processing: Sue Bartlett This issue is printed by Oxonian Rewley Press Ltd Reports Planning History is p ubli shed three times a year ACSP-AESOP Joint Congress, Oxford, July 8-12, 1991 28 fo r distribution t o members of the Planning S. Ward History Group. The G roup as a body is not responsible fo r the views expressed and statements made by individuals writing or Lewis Murnford: Exploring An Intellectual Legacy 32 reporti ng in Planni ng History. No part of this J. R. Gold publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the editor. Architectural Conservation; Informing the Professionals 33 C. Tranmer (ed.) Notes for Contributors The prime aim of Planning History is to increase an awareness of developments and ideas in Publications 37 planning history in all parts of the world. In pursuit of this aim, contributions arc invited Abstracts 37 from members and non-member!> alike for any secti on of the bull etin. Articles should normall y not exceed 2500 words, and mav well reflect work in p rogress. Photographs and other il lustrati ons may be incl uded. Contribut ion::. submitted on a disc, with accompanying ha rd copy, are to be encouraged; please contact the editor for format details. Editorial Planning 1-Ustory Vol. 13 No. 3 A particularly happy outcome of the 1991 international conferences has been to greatly Editorial strengthen the informal and personal links between the Society for American City and Regional Pl~nning History (SACRPH) and our own Planning 1991 has been an interesting and important year for H1story Group. The debate about finding a suitable planning historians. We have had the unusual way to bring these groups together in a formal bonus of two major international conferences that arrangement that avoids the need for dual have focused wholly or partly on our subject area. membership for PHG's American members The ACSP I AESOP Conference at Oxford, UK in continues. Of course personal contacts do not July, (reported in this issue), and the 4th National overcome all misgivings about moving to a more Conference on American Planning History, expensive international society format for the doubling as the 5th International Conference of the Planning History Group. Many UK and non-UK Planning History Group at Richmond, Virginia i n members of the Group are clearly happy with the November, have provided rich opportunities for present arrangements. But at least the major figures meeting a nd getting to know our fellow involved in SACRPH and PHG have now met each p~ac titi oner s from other countries. (A report of the other and been able to talk in a relaxed way about Richmond Conference wi ll appear in the next the different issue). options and their particular concerns. One point which I hope has now become fully clear The personal links fostered by such international to SACRPH members is the truly international basis events a re of tremendous value in advancing our of the PHG. Despite its British base, it looks across area of common interest. However effective journals like Planning History or Planning the globe. in a ~ay that is a remarkable testimony to the tra1l blazmg efforts of its two founders, Perspectives are in spreading the word about the Cordon Cherry and Tony Sutcliffe. Those who wish work of individuals and groups, personal contacts add a further d imension to this, sometimes in to equ~te PHG with larger structures might see it as a nurror of the pragmatic restlessness of British unexpected ways. For example, not the least ~st-imperialism, on the one hand forging links significant event at the Richmond conference was w1th Europe, while maintaining them with the when your editor r ediscovered a long-lost ability to former British Empire and the wider world dance during a night out at one of the local especially the USA and Japan. But whether'we nightspots in the delightful company of Greek, explain it in terms of personalities or structures is American, Japanese, Finnish, German and British ultimately irrelevant because this international delegates! Others will, I feel sure, have come away from these conferences with similar memories of network has itself become a tremendously valuable new or renewed friendships. In such relaxed resource, capable of being experienced at a variety of levels. circumstances eminent names on the pages of academic journals quickly become friends; letters no longer need be addressed formally, as to Planning History continues to demonstrate and strangers. reflect this internationalist spirit, and the present issue is a good example of the range of our There is, I hasten to add, a scholarly spin-off from conce~n s. There is, as usual, no shortage of suitable such socialising. Thus the very scholarly journals matenal and I have again had to hold over some that formalise our academic interchanges also thrive articles and other reports until the next issue. on international conferences because of the ~lea~e keep the material coming though. I am often unrivalled showcase they provide for academic fmdmg out about seminars and conferences too late papers and their presenters. I am certainly finding, to includ~ them in the notices section, so I hope as did my predecessor, that such conferences are the orgarusers of such events will think ahead and tremendous generators of articles, research material, help me inform readers of their events. information on research and study networks, A~ter this very minor admonition, Planning History forthcoming publications and the like. Even the w1shes all its readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May 1992 be as fruitful ~ost cynical observer of the international planning for our h1 story conference network, with mind coloured subject as 1991 has been! perhaps by fanciful images from the novels of Oavid Lodge or Malcolm Bradbury, would have to Stephen V Ward concede, I hope, that it generates better and more diverse reading in these pages. PlaMing History Vol 13 No. 3 Planning History Vol. 13 No. 3 Letters NoliCEll interrelationships between public administration Jorge Augusto Arredondo-Vega and professional planning practice in such a way Correction that, if those responsible have their wits about (mailing address) Notices them, better, more adaptable systems will result. School of Architecture UABC 211 First Street, Box 35085 Regrettably three of the illustrations in Professor The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the I have argued from time to time that if planning Calexico, CA 92231 Jeremy Whitehand's article in the last issue of Study of American Architecture, history as a field of endeavour is to flourish in the California were transposed. The illustration PIJJ nning History long term, the academic-practitioner bridges need USA Columbia University, 400 Avery Hall, s~own as Figure 3 should have been Figure 5, to be strengthened and its implicit relevance to day New York, NY 10027 hould have been Figure 6 and Figure 6 Ftgure 5 s to day practice which we 'affidondos' take for have been Figure 3. Planning History should granted, made more explicit. 1992 Buell Talks on American expresses its sincere apologies both to Professor and to readers for this confusion. Architecture Whitehand Mr Larkham has done us proud. I for one am Readers wishing to have receive a correct version of drawing his commentary to the attention of the the article should contact the editor. The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of relevant people in this State's central and local American Architecture is pleased to announce its planning administrations. I hope others do as well. 1992 series of Buell Talks on American Architecture, which will be held on Saturday, April 25, 1992, at Yours faithfully Columbia University. This event will bring together a select group of doctoral students Letters ssioner Alan Hutchings Commi working under the broad rubric of American Planning Appeal Tribunal architectural history. The programme is structured Sir, Adelaide to strengthen the intellectual and academic South Australia qualifications of these emerging young scholars by I have been meaning for some time to write to providing a forum fo r collegial discussion of their congratulate Peter Larkham about his very pointed Dear Friends work, as well as by associating them collectively and timely paper When PIJJnning becomes Planning and individually with some of the finest teaching History: Reflections on Recent Research in Volume 12 I am writing on behalf of the Research Team in scholars in American architectural history. The No. 3, 1990. Urban Development at the School of Architecture Center holds these Talks every other year, in order from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California to bring together the most interesting students and Mr Larkham in his concluding comments says in Mexico; we are interested in joining your group to explore the new themes developing in the field.
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