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

这项研究旨在详细追踪战后英国严酷的现实中，美好城市未来的梦想是如何实现的。本书讨论了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参与者——政治家、既得利益者和广大公众——如何参与重建过程。战时社会调查是由信息部设立的一个政府研究机构，其任务是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历。1944年，一位英国城市社会学家在米德尔斯堡进行了一项社会调查，以帮助战后重建。在这项研究中，我考察了米德尔斯堡的调查，并首先追踪了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和城镇最贫困地区的人之间的差异很明显。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。结果，我在2010年伦敦威斯敏斯特大学（University of Westminster）的国际会议“闪电战及其遗产”（Blitz and its Legacy）上发表了一篇论文，并在2010年至2011年期间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.