Man-Made Future

This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning. Each essay is grounded in original archival research and sheds new light on this critical era in the development of modern town planning. This collection is a valuable resource for architectural, social and urban historians, as well as students and researchers offering new insights into the development of the mid-twentieth century city.

Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a Getty Scholar and, more recently, a Senior Program Officer at the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has served as a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland.

1. 1947 And All That 2. Otto Neurath and the Sociology of Happiness 3. Surveying and Comprehensive Planning 4. Everywhere At Any Time 5. Perceptions in the Conception of the Modernist Urban Environment 6. Selling the Future City 7. Paper Dream City/Modern Monument 8. Conceptions and Perceptions of Urban Futures in Early Post-war Britain 9. 'Into the World of Conscious Expression' 10. Plan 11. 'Destroy all humans!' 12. The English University of the 1960s 13. The Tall Barracks Artistically Reconsidered