Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-tf8b9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T11:15:36.452Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Plans, planners and city images: place promotion and civic boosterism in British reconstruction planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2004

PETER J. LARKHAM  and
KEITH D. LILLEY
PETER J. LARKHAM
Affiliation:
School of Planning and Housing, University of Central England, Birmingham, B42 2SU
KEITH D. LILLEY
Affiliation:
School of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NN
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This article reviews an unusual and subtle form of place promotion, that contained in the series of British post-war reconstruction plans produced up to c. 1952. These were not explicitly designed as place-promotional literature, and we suggest that they should be seen as subverse promotion of towns and cities, as well as vehicles for civic boosterism. Evidence of this is discussed with respect to the production of these plans, for example in the commissioning of eminent and expensive consultants; in the texts of plans; and in the often striking and colourful imagery used.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , August 2003 , pp. 183 - 205
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)