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CIVILIZING CITIES IBD

DAVID WILLIAMS
ARENA BOOKS LTD
02 / 2021
9781911593799
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Sinopsis

Cities affect all our lives. Fernand Braudel identified their three functions, providing security, shelter and markets. Ideologists like Ebenezer Howard (garden cities) and Le Corbusier (monumental redevelopment) suggested how cities should work. Jane Jacobs showed how they actually work.áCivilizing Citiesáexpands considerably from these foundations in three parts: past, present and future.áááááááááááááááááááTo improve cities, we need to replace âÇÖnormativeâÇÖ and âÇÖmarket-ledâÇÖ planning ideologies based on the bulldozer, with pragmatic planning based on small-scale incrementalism and âÇÖintensificationâÇÖ. We also need practical sustainable policies, which theáNational Planning Policy Frameworkásignally fails to provide.ááááááááááFor this, we need politicians with the intellectual rigour, social understanding and felt need for fairness, like Clement Attlee, Lloyd George and, in Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain. He or she will need to reset the balance between central and local government, make taxes more consistent (a bedroom tax just on the poor?) and reform the House of Lords as a Citizens Assembly.ááááááááááFinally, the book briefly surveys the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to devolve more powers to local councils, covering education, health, transport and welfare etc. Planning must also return to its roots in public health, and create healthier cities with less pollution, inequality, unemployment and isolation.á

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