A very solid run-through of the city's post war regeneration. Perhaps a "talking head" format would enliven the presentation somewhat (with the right presenter of course!). Photos etc could still be used. What came across to me was the sheer scale of physical, social and economic regeneration that was required. And the very proactive role that the City Council took, necessitated by the fact that the country was bankrupt and really exhausted after 6 years of war. It's difficult to imagine local government today being in a position to take such a leading role. I'm very fortunate to possess a copy of the Lutyens/Abercrombie plan. Its an amazing piece of work, considering that it was commissioned whilst the war was still raging and completed very soon after its end. It was more a plan for much of the East Riding, not just the city, and took the role of the city's rural hinterland very seriously. It was very ambitious. With hindsight, clearly very overly-ambitious, but it conveyed the spirit of post-war optimism and was never intended to be a rigid blueprint. The Foreword, by the then Alderman J L Schultz (later Alderman Sir Leo Schultz, Leader of the City Council in the 1960s), acknowledges that "Few of us will see the completion of the plan. But may we point out the road to a destiny that will be not unworthy of the great victory that the heroism and faith of our people has helped to secure." The style of design it envisaged looks very dated now, but the city would have been a grander and more spacious place if more of it had been implemented. It's a shame, but unsurprising, that most of the proposals floundered amid vested interests and lack of money and ambition.
@TheCraigy83
10 ай бұрын
the ultra close and thin walled endless rows of houses was meant to de industrialise us ,small door width stops us owning industrial machines that business's use , no public plebs own a double door house & we all scrape our knuckles getting a small washing machine through the door.. ...ALL d i y / project work noise quickly annoys both neighbours. Hard to fill up the land with ''outsider'' workers if we where all set up to be self employed from teens like the older days...big companies wanting more and more profit has made us a corporation middle man society.
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