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Civilizing Cities (Paperback, First)
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Civilizing Cities (Paperback, First)
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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. Civilizing Cities expands considerably from
these foundations in three parts: past, present and future. To
address these issues, we need to replace 'normative' and
'market-led' planning ideologies based on the bulldozer, with
pragmatic planning based on small-scale incrementalism and
'intensification'. We also need practical sustainable policies,
which the National Planning Policy Framework signally fails to
provide. Finally, 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. The
book concludes with conclusions to be drawn from the Covid-19
pandemic. These include giving local councils many more essential
public functions in the prevention and management of future health
crises, returning planning to its public health roots and creating
healthier cities with less pollution, inequality, unemployment and
isolation.
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