JFJLAJNINfJIN G HTI§ TO JR ~y BULLETIN OF THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY VOL. 22 NO. 2 * 2000 ISSN 0959-5805 JFI~AJNNJI)NjG IHITI§1r0~Y BULLETIN OF THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY BULLETIN OF THE INT ERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY EDITOR Dr Kiki Kafkoula Department of Urban and Regional Planning Dr Mark Clapson School of Architecture Dept. of History Aristotle University ofThessalonika University of Luton Thessalonika 54006 75 Castle Street Greece Luton Tel: 303 1 995495 I Fax: 3031 995576 LU I 3AJ UK Dr. Peter Larkham Birmingham School of Planning page 2 Tel: 01582 489034 I Fax: 01582 489014 University of Central England EDITORIAL E-mail: [email protected] Perry Barr Birmingham NOTICES 4 B42 2SU EDITORIAL BOARD UK Tcl: 0121 331 5145 ARTICLES Or Arturo Almandoz Email: [email protected] Departamento de Planificacion Urbana Political symbolism in the Canberra Landscape Universidad Simon Bolivar Professor John Muller 8 Aptdo. 89000 Department ofTown and Regional Planning Peter R. Proudfoot Caracas I086 University of Witwatersrand Venezuela Johannesburg Transatlantic dialogue: Raymond Unwin and the American planning scene Tel: (58 2) 906 4037 I 38 PO Wits2050 Mervyn Miller 17 E-mail: [email protected] South Africa Tel:Oll 7162654 / Fax: 011 403 2519 Or Halina Dunin-Woyseth E-mail: 041 [email protected] .ac.za P RACTICE Oslo School of Architecture Department of Urban Planning Professor Georgio Piccinato The Tony Garnier Urban Museum, Lyon PO Box 271 300 I Drammen Facolta di Architettura 29 Norway Universita di Roma 3 Stephen V. Ward Tel: 47222083 16/Fax:4722111970 Via Madonna dei Monti 40 00184 Roma REPORTS 36 Dr Gerhard Fehl Italy Lehrstuhl IUr Planungstheorie Tel: +39 6 678 8283 I Fax: +39 6 481 8625 41 Tcchnische Hochschulc Aachen E-mail: [email protected] PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS 52062 Aachen Schinkelstrasse I Dr Pieter Uyttenhove Germany 64 rue des Moines Tel: 0241 805029/Fax: 0241 8888137 F-75017 Paris Dr Robert Freestone France Planning and Urban Development Program Faculty of the Built Environment Professor Stephen V. Ward University ofNew South Wales School of Planning Sydney NSW 2052 Oxford Brookes University Australia Headington Tel: 02 9385 4836 / Fax: 02 9901 4505 Oxford E.-mail: [email protected] OX30BP UK Dr Robert K. Home Tel: 01865 483421/ Fax: 01865 483559 Department of Surveying E-mail: [email protected] University of East London Dagenham Professor Shun-ichi Watanabe Essex Science University ofTokyo RM82AS, UK Yamazaki, Noda-shi Tel: (0)181 590 7722 x2504 /Fax: (018 1 849 361 8 Chiba-ken 278 E-mail: [email protected] Japan Tel: 81474 24 150 1 /Fax: 81 47125 7833 PLANNING HISTORY VOL. 22 NO. 2 * 2000 * PAGE 1 history. Interesting questions about the think I speak for everyone in nature and scope of any discipline of appreciating the attractive and well­ history are revealed, for example, provisioned campus of Helsinki when thinking about the sources that University ofTechnology. The we use. Few social historians plunder organisers are to be congratulated on the planning and architectural the smooth running of the conference MARK CLAPSON materials, yet many relevant and programme. A full report on the Department of History, University ofLuton, 75 Castle Street, Luton, LUl 3AJ, informative contemporary articles and Helsinki conference, written by Rob UK studies of town life are available there. Home of the University of East Email: [email protected] Similarly, planning historians can London, will be published in the next Tel: 0044 (0)1582 489034; fax: (0)1582 489014 utilise a wide range of broad-sheet issue of the bulletin. newspapers, and popular and specialist bulletins, to gain insights and evidence Finally ... Taking up t he reins working on these parts of the world, or upon the social context within which Here is a plea on a number of I was pleased to be asked by the IPHS you know someone who is ... planning decisions are made, and put fronts: I haven't received very many to take up the editorship of Planning Second, the spread of subj ects into practice. And there is more than a books for review si nce I took over History. I sincerely hope I can covered has increasingly widened over little oral testimony and autobiography, from Peter, and would be grateful for maintain the previous editor Peter the years, and this is also to be and also fiction, which provides more. The reviews section in this Lark.ham's high standards of editing encouraged. Peter mentioned, impressions of how 'the planners' have bulletin is a little thin. Also, please and production over the next three however, that unfortunately little had been perceived, often in a critical and keep me informed of any key articles, years. Having said that, I must been written on the teaching of prejudiced way, over the course of of relevance to readers of Planning apologise for the slightly late arrival of planning history, so contributions on many years. These are but a few History, that might be found in urban this issue, a result of an accumulation pedagogical practice and on key issues examples by way of making the point history journals. I will endeavour to of a number of minor production in the delivery of courses on planning that, in short, any articles synthesising cover those international journals difficulties. The next issue will be hot history will also be welcomed. planning history with other disciplines available in British libraries, but would on its heels, and ready by the end of I might add that although I will be welcomed. be pleased to receive notices of the December. I would also like to have worked in planning history, I am Planning History is also a contents of articles in journals gratefully acknowledge the help and also committed to social history and to useful site for research students to specifically relating to North and South advice I gained from Peter over the last making linkages between these two publish short articles on their work. If American, African, Asian and Pacific­ few ' transitional' months. A big disciplines. The social consequences you are involved in postgraduate Rim urban and planning history. thanks, too, to all those members of the of planning, and the social contexts supervision, please encourage your Lastly, it would be good to IPHS who have written to me or within which planners worked, are students to think of the bulletin both as keep the 'Practice' section as a regular emailed me to welcome me to the new often lacking in planning histories. a way of developing their work by feature. This is again dependent upon role as editor. Social historians, for their part, often preparation for publication, but also as what is out there, and who is willing to view social change in a vacuum. Life an avenue of introduction to the wider submit a piece, but little reports of The scope of the bulletin: past in towns and cities is rarely if ever international community of planning between I ,500 and 2,000 words upon present and future connected to the policy decisions, and historians. The occasional 'Research' planning history courses, on museums In his final editorial in Volume 22, No. to the ideologies and practices of section of the bulletin should be a and archives, and on exhibitions, will I, 2000 of Planning History, Peter planners, that moulded the physical regular feature. be welcomed. Each piece should focused upon the strengths of the nature of the urban environment. So I began writing this editorial emphasise the uses to, and relevance there is also scope for synthesising 1 bulletin, and outlined a number of before the 9 h IPHS conference at the of, their subject matter for historians of areas where it could be improved. planning history with other disciplines. Helsinki University of Technology in planning. The Practice section, as is First, the geographical spread of the This point is relevant not only to social Finland, but I'm inputting this text a evident from the article in this issue is bulletin is broad, but can be broader history, but also to architectural urban week after the event. So I will distinct from Reports or Notices du~ to still. The bulletin will thus encourage political and economic history. 'rt is ' probably have met many of you by the its length and depth. It is intended to contributions from all parts of the interesting to ask how far, if at all, this time you read this. The conference was be first and foremost an interesting and world. I will also endeavour to is possible, and how this might be very well organised and lively, and a useful section, enabling readers of increase the number of contributions achieved. In some ways, this connects many interesting and exciting papers Planning History to learn about from the under-represented Asian and to that point about the need for more were given. Some will appear in the relevant activities and sites of learning. Pacific Rim countries. So if you are work on the teaching of planning next few issues of Planning History. I PLANNING HIST ORY VOL. 22 NO. 2 * 2000 * PAGE 2 PLANNING HISTORY VOL. 22 NO. 2 * 2000 * PAGE 3 ISUF conference, September 2001 : study of the tremendous urban The 10111 International Planning years on, Unwin's vision is as valid an Retrospective on urban morphology transformations in the past two History Society Conference: approach as ever. at the Millennium centuries, but especially in the Cities of Tomorrow: London twentieth century. In that spirit, the Letchworth 2000 Location The next biennial conference of conference will also feature a 'mini The tenth gathering of IPHS delegates International Seminar on Urban Form seminar' on the methods and theories The 10111 IPHS conference will will be convened in two world-famous will be held for the first time in the of the English, French and Italian celebrate the internationalism of the planned environments, which embody Uni ted States, in Cincinnati, Ohio.