Название: New Town Utopia
Автор: Smith Ch. I.
Издательство: Beechill
Жанр: Культурология
Год издания: 2018
Страниц: 124
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 43 Мб

Идеальный город — концепция, задуманная как утопическая доктрина в сфере социальных теорий и архитектурных моделей. Идеально организованное пространство как в социальном, так и в архитектурном плане. Задуманный в проектах и сочинениях, на практике полностью до сих пор не реализован.

New Town Utopia is an anthology of poetry, photography and theory that explores the British new town experiment. It features photography and poetry inspired by the town of Basildon, Essex. It also includes essays, extracts and contributions from writers and journalists including: Gillian Darley, Owen Hatherley, John Grindrod, and Jonathan Meades.

In 1946, Lewis Silkin, the Minister for Town and Country Planning, delivered a lyrical and impassioned speech to parliament. In the midst of the Labour government’s radical post-war policy drive, he announced a plan to build ten ‘new towns’ across the UK. This initiative acted upon the findings of Abercrombie’s Greater London Plan and was inspired by Ebeneezer Howard’s Garden Cities. It addressed the major issues facing the cities of Britain - including the devastating impact of WW2 bombing and atrocious living and working conditions - by relocating families to new, purpose-built towns. Silkin’s speech expressed a desire to create ‘a new type of citizen’ who would develop through living in the new town ‘a sense of beauty, culture and civic pride’. He evoked Thomas More’s Utopia as an indicator of his ambition.