Planning at the limit: immigration and post-war Birmingham

W.F. Chan

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    Abstract

    It is acknowledged that the post-war period of urban planning has played a significant role in the construction of Britain's cities. The plans themselves and the commentaries on these plans tend to illustrate this phase as predominately involving rehousing, the reorganization of land use and the containment of urban sprawl. Through a close, de-constructive reading of two plans instructive to the rebuilding of the City of Birmingham, this paper suggests that post-war reconstruction cannot be reduced to such domestic, localised issues. Instead, it demonstrates that although planners often elided any mention of immigration and promoted a notion of natural population increase, there remain traces of an uneven relationship with immigration operating at a number of scales in the documentation. The paper elucidates such traces and, in turn, works towards a reassessment of the literature on immigration and the city.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)513-527
    Number of pages15
    JournalJournal of Historical Geography
    Volume31
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2005

    Keywords

    • Birmingham
    • deconstruction
    • immigration
    • planning
    • reconstruction
    • scale

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