We are pleased to announce an invited talk by Dr Catherine Flinn.
In this lecture, Dr Flinn will provide her comprehensive work on how the United Kingdom, other European cities, and Japanese cities were reconstructed after the Second World War.
Date & Time:
30 November 2023, 9:00 am–10:00 am (Tokyo time)
Location:
Online (Zoom)
Please sign up from here (you will receive the Zoom link via e-mail) :
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Organizers:
Fuko Nakai (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Hitomu Kotani (Kyoto University)
Junji Urata (Tsukuba University)
Title:
Post-Disaster Urban Planning: Lessons from the UK after World War II
Abstract:
In Britain during and after the Second World War those who planned for the future focused on hope and potential, publishing modernist visions of new city centres. This talk will focus on how planning for reconstruction was approached, the problems around realising the plans, and the realities faced by blitzed cities after war. It will also look at impacts on those cities today, plus possible implications for disaster planning in future.
Speaker:
Dr Catherine Flinn, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany in New York
Biography:
Catherine Flinn has a doctorate in modern British history and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She previously took degrees in landscape architecture, architectural history and garden history and conservation. She returned to academia following a professional career in architecture, landscape and planning. Dr Flinn has taught at several universities in the US and the UK. Her research focuses on postwar reconstruction – in particular the political, economic and social impacts of rebuilding and redevelopment. Her book Rebuilding Britain’s Blitzed Cities: Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities was published by Bloomsbury and is available in paperback.
The lecture will be recorded and streamed at the 5th Conference of Alliance for Disaster Re-Design on 10 December 2023.
http://dss.bin.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/symposium/symposium_2023/
