2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Democratic Reform and Town Planning in the British post-war Reconstruction
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22730281
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Chubu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | イギリス / 戦後復興 / 都市計画 / 民主的計画 / 社会調査 / 製鉄工業都市 / ミドルズバラ市 |
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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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