Why Planning History?
Planning history can be highly useful, but is also often abused. Throughout the text, 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.
Australian Planning History
- The drivers for Australian planning were the problems accompanying an accelerated scale of unplanned urbanisation from the later 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.
Throughout this section of the reading, Freestone discusses how disciplinary concerns and methods have emerged as sources of innovation research in Australian planning history.
Canvassing the Future of the Past
Over decades, an electric cast of researchers have 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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