Planning history is the historical study of all aspects of Urban and Regional planning. The growing body of work in this field since the 1980's has been reviewed by various authors. planning history has been portrayed as a regrettable fragmentation of historical interests in the city.
Why Planning History?
History can be useful, but can also be abused. Macmillion argues that we should distrust these who abuse history to justify unreasonable claims and unconscionable positions. At the same time an historical perspective can deliver more positive outcomes of scepticism.
An Australian planning history:
The drivers for Australian planning were the problems accompanying an accelerated scale of unplanned urbanisation from the late 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century, idealistic social reforms comprising progressive practitioners drawn mainly from Architecture, Engineering and surveying professionals.
The second half of the 20th century saw a return to the propaganda investment made in the first few decades. The major dividend came in the 1940's when planning was widely accepted as a legitimate activity of the state. Post war planning systems grew accretion in each jurisdiction.
Innovative discourse:
Throughout this section of the reading Freestone talks about how disciplinary concerns and methods have emerged as sources of innovation research in Australian planning history.
Canvassing the future of the past:
Over decades as electric cast of researches has filled in gaps of planning history, and injected new understandings and generated yet more avenues for arguing. Considerable evidence has been assembled to convey a small culturally specific paradigm.
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