Democratic Reform and Town Planning in the British post-war Reconstruction

本研究旨在详细追溯战后英国城市美好未来的梦想是如何在严酷的现实中实现的。它涉及到规划者本身和他们的想法，但将规划置于背景中，因此也讨论了其他重要角色-政治家，既得利益者和广大公众-如何参与重建过程。战时社会调查由信息部设立，是一个政府研究机构，负责调查人们的日常生活，他们对社区的感受，以及他们对经济和社会问题的经验。1944年，一位英国城市社会学家为了帮助战后重建，对米德尔斯堡进行了一次社会调查。在这项研究中，我考察了米德尔斯堡的调查，并追踪了：第一，普通人与他们的近邻和朋友的互动;第二，更广泛的社会关系模式，特别是那些构成休闲和阶级互动的模式;第三，生活在较富裕的郊区、理事会庄园和城镇最贫穷地区的人之间的明显差异。最后，我从“民主规划”的角度评价了英国城市社会学对战后重建的贡献。为此，我于2010年在伦敦的威斯敏斯特大学举行的“闪电战及其遗产”国际会议上发表了论文，并于2010年至2011年在学术期刊上发表了两篇文章。

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.