| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research is to trace in detail how the dreams of a better urban future fared in the harsh reality of the post-war Britain. It deals with the planners themselves and their ideas, but places planning in context, and so also discuss how other important players-politicians, vested interests and the public at large-participated in the rebuilding process.
The wartime Social Survey, set up by the Ministry of Information, was a government research institute tasked with investigating people's everyday lives, their feelings about community, and their experience of economic and social problems. In 1944, a British urban sociologist, conducted a social survey of Middlesbrough to aid post-war reconstruction.
In this research, I examine the Middlesbrough survey and trace, first, ordinary peoples' interactions with their immediate neighbours and friends ; second, wider patterns of social relations, particularly those which structured leisure and class interactions ; and, third, the differences that were evident between those who lived in the better off suburbs, council estates, and the poorest areas of the town. Finally, I evaluate the contribution that British urban sociology made to post-war reconstruction in terms of' democratic planning'.
As the result, I gave a paper at the international conference' Blitz and its Legacy' at the University of Westminster in London in 2010, and published two articles in academic journals between 2010 and 2011.
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