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Planning History Bulletin of the Planning History Group Vol. 11 No. 2 1989 Planning History BuUetin of the Planning History Group Contents lSSl 0267-0542 1 EDITORIAL Editor 2 Professor Denni Hardy NOTICES Sc.hool of Geography and Planning M1ddle ex Polytechnic Queensway ~~!!.~.~~~S _ ....... ~·--- ·~· .. ······~·-·····.... - .........................................................................-·········· ·············v··--«·«·"·--·····-................... - ................................ ~.. Enfield Middlesex Built Form versus Urb an Planning Legis lation of the Last Century: E 3 4SF Genius Loci versus International Influen ces . .. ... .. .. .. ...... ........ ....... .. · · . 4 Telephone 01-368 '1299 Extn 2299 H alina Dunin-Woyseth Telex 8954762 Urban Reconstr u ction in France after World War 11 .. .. .. .. .................... · .13 Fax 01-805 0702 Daniele Voldman Social Democratic Reform and Aus tralia's Cities: The Whitlam Legacy .............. .. 18 Associate Editor for the Americas Lio nel O rch a rd Or Marc A. Weiss 25 School of Architecture and Planning PORTS Massachusetts Institute o f Technology RE Building -l-209 Cambridge, 1A 02'139 Joint PHG/AESOP Planning His tory Pan el at Dortmund Congress .... ........ ...... 25 USA David Massey 26 Associate Editor for the Pacific SOURCES Or Robert Freestone DC Research John J ohnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, O xford ............. 26 Design Collaborative Pty. Ltd. Dennis Hard y 225 Clarence Street Sydney SW 2000 28 PLANNING HISTORY PRACTICE Australia .....:..... .... ---....~---· ..-.:·-~----~· -·:·:------·- - ........_ ...... ................. ~-·········_. ................... _ ..................._..._.,.. _ _. ..... .._.,...... .,..,. ,.._4-.-.-·------.- ...~ ·······-....... """""""--··:·_.._~,-···........ ~~_,.,._.--.-·· ···· ...... ·-·····-... ·----· Planning History: How Relevant is it to P lanning Policy a nd Practice? ... ...... ..... 28 Production Alan Hutchings Design: Steve Chilton W?r~ Proce.ssing: Sandy Weeks 29 Pnntmg: M iddlesex Polytechnic Print Centre NETWORKS UNESCO Study Prospectus: Cultural Identity in Internation al Urban Program s . ...... 29 Plan~in l? Hi~tory is published three times a year fo.r d1 stnbut10n to members of the Planning Rob ert Freestone H1story Group. The Group a a body is not 30 responsible for the v iews expressed and PUBLICATIONS s tate~ent~ made by individual writing or repo~tm~ m Planning History. o part of this Abs tracts ..... ...... ........ .................................................... 30 pubhcat10n may be reproduced in any form w1 thout permission from the editor. Catalogues . ... .. .. .. ..... .... .. ........ .... ......... .............. .... 32 Notes for Contributors Bibliograph y ....... .. ... .. .. .. ............ .. .. .... .............. ....... 33 The prime aim of Planning Hi tory is to incrca e an awareness of developments and ideas in 34 planning history in all parts of the world. In PLANNING HISTORY GROUP pursuit of this aim, contributions arc invited fron:' members and non-members alike for any Treasurer's Rep ort for 1987 ..... .. .. ... ........ .. .. .. .. ........... ........ 34 section of t he b ulletin. Articles should norma lly not exceed 2500 word s, and may well reflect ~o r k in. progress. Pho tographs and other Il lustratiOns may be included. Contri butions submitted on a d isc, wi th accompanying hard copy, are to be encouraged; p lease contact the editor for format details. Planning His tor y Vol. 11 No. 2 Editorial Editorial But such generalised models are difficult to con If the focus of planning history has sometimes struct. We are accum ulating the building blocks, been directed t oo much on the British tradition, but how should they be arranged? What general this issue is welcome evidence of a more interna explanations can we offer, for instance, for the in tional approach. Planning has evolved in a var troduction of a planning system at a particular iety of national and cultural settings, and there is time, for the extent to which it might have d e a wealth of experience to share. As if to illus veloped features unlike those of any other sys trate the p oint, the articles in this issue arc drawn tem , and for the ways in which ideas and from the varied perspectives of scholars in Nor experience are exchanged between countries? way, France and Australia. There is no easy way forward, but the role of in Halina Dunin-Woyseth (Oslo School of Architec ternational conferences is an obvious source of ture) compares the development of planning in progress. Last year's international conference in Britain, Germany and Norway, showing that lo Tokyo raised interesting conceptual questions to cality and the unique characteristics of place arc d o with the exchange of ideas and the particular attracting renewed attention following a long characteristics of the Asian experience. The forth phase of submergence in the face of generalising coming conference at Bournville has a challeng influences. In turn, Daniele Voldman (Institut e d' histoire du temps present, Paris) offers an ac ing role in carrying forward the debate, th building blocks in this case being the evidence of count of a more specific process, that of urban rec the garden city tradition, an international topic if onstruction in France after World War 11, though questions are raised about processes that are no ever there were. less applicable to those that occurred in neigh bouring European countries. Finally, Lionel Or Dennis Hardy chard (Department of History, University of Adelaide) brings planning history to the relative ly recent period of the early 1970s, through the example of the urban policies of the Whitlam Ad ministration. A sharing of experience and different cultural per spectives such as the above is essential to a deeper understanding of those processes which have accounted for the development of planning systems, and of variations in systems adopted in different countries. Each contribution provides another building block that can be used to con struct more generalised models of comparative ex planation. Planning ll•s tory Vol 11 No 2 Planmng I h!> to ry Vo l 11 No. 2 Notices Notices EUROPA NOSTRA AWARDS 1989 Notices Applications are invited for the 1989 Awa~d s fo.r the protection of Europe's Heritage. About thtrty-ftve awards are made annually by Europa t:Jost~a for pro jects which make a distinguished contnb~ttOn t~ the SIXTH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM OF HISTORIC GRADUATE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND conservation and enhancement of Europe s archttectu TOWNS THEORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, STATE ral and natural heritage. All the awards ar~ . Cambridge, England, 20-22 Se ptember 1989 UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON , USA commemorated by a wall plaque and a certtft~ate, a.nd the most outstanding entries are presented wtth a stl· ver medal. This international conference is being hosted by Cam The graduate program offers opportunities for ad· bridge City Council under the auspices of the Council history and theory vanced studies and research in the r than 20th October, of Europe' s Standing Conference of Local and Regional Entries should be received no late of art and architecture, with a particular commitment 1989 by: Europa Nostra Awards, 9 Buckingham Gate, Authorities of Europe. The event is being organised in to new theoretical and methodological approaches. London SW1E6JP, England. collaboration with Europa Nostra, the English Historic Supported by university strengths in history, socio Towns Forum and the Local Government International logy, anthropology, and critical theory, it aims to Bureau in the United Kingdom. develop scholars, teachers, museum curators, and prac SELECTION OF EUROPA titioners in the planning professions, capable of For further information, please contact: interpreting the role of art and architecture within cul NOSTRA 1988 AWARD Conference Contact, 42 Devonshire Road, Cambridge tural production in the broadest sense. WINNERS CBl 2BL, England. Telephone (U K) 0223-323437. Fax (UK) 0223-460396. Telex 81304. Because of its links with other interdisciplinary re search centers and graduate programs within the university, the program in the history and theory of art and architecture offers a unique opportunity to grad 1. THESSALONIKI, WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY uate students wishing to undertake innovative studies GREECE - for the restoration of a cross disciplinary nature. It places emphasis on of the 16th century White News from Nowhere Centenary the development of critical, theoretical, and historical Tower to house an art and perspectives in the study of the visual arts, photo d:ill"'•• history exhibition. graphy, architecture, planning, and the wider built Next year marks the centenary of the publication of environment, and of the social and political contexts in William Morris's utopian romance, portraying London which they may be embedded at a local, national, and 'after the revolution'. The William Morris Society, an global level. organisation with 1700 members, is planning conferen 2. UTRECHT, THE NETHER· ces in London and Oxford to mark the event. Details As the program stresses the development of analytical LANDS - for the restoration of these and of other activities of the Society may be ob and conceptual skills over a broad range of specialized of five churches dating from tained from Hans Brill, William Morris Society, fields, it provides opportunities for students to work to the 11th to the 17th centuries Kelmscott House, 26