Introduction: The Direction of Travel -- Roads to Reconstruction: The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Special Housing Mission to Wartime Britain -- Green Lights for Understanding: The American Contribution to Urban Research in Britain, 1940s-1970s -- Through Roads and Dead Ends: American Influences on Post-war Urban Reconstruction -- Roads to Edge City: Motorization, Milton Keynes and Urbanization After the Era of Reconstruction -- The Opposite Direction: British Influences Upon Privately and Publicly Developed New Towns and New Communities in the United States of America -- Avoiding Danger: The USA and the Regeneration of the Inner City in Britain Since 1970 -- A Coda on New Urbanism: Back to Milton Keynes.
Summary
"The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads explores how Americanisation influenced key approaches to town planning, from reconstruction after 1945 to the New Urbanism of the 1990s. Clapson pays particular attention to the relationship between urban sociological research and planning issues since the 1950s. He also addresses the ways in which American developers and planners of new communities looked to the British new towns and garden city movement for inspiration."--
