Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
by John Grindrod · 2 Nov 2013 · 578pp · 141,373 words
with these developments. ‘Parked and moving vehicles obscure the scene day and night,’ wrote Professor Colin Buchanan, a traffic planning specialist, in The Times.7 ‘A generally hideous array of signals, beacons, signs, railings, petrol stations, sales depots and advertisements has come into being.’ His report for the government, Traffic in Towns, became a bestseller in
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shopping megastructure named High Market. It had been sponsored by the glass manufacturers Pilkington Brothers, and drawn up by yet another husband and wife team, Gordon and Eleanor Michell (who had advised Colin Buchanan while he was writing Traffic in Towns). The Michells imagined an artificial ridge stretching between two hills in the countryside near Dudley in
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and the long arm of the internet. On 7 April 1971, the Queen opened Birmingham’s completed inner ring road, an idea that had been gestating since 1917. The local dignitaries who gathered that spring day to see their ambitious project given the royal blessing, less than a decade after Buchanan’s Traffic in Towns
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/76, p13 57 Neville Borg, Birmingham Chief Engineer in John Holliday, ed, City Centre Redevelopment, Charles Knight, 1973, p49 58 Colin Buchanan, Guardian, 28/9/70, p7 59 Colin Buchanan, Traffic in Towns, Penguin, 1964, p37 60 ‘Must Britain be a Mess?’ 4, Observer 19/6/60, p19 61 ‘Must Britain be a Mess
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?’ 4, Observer 19/6/60, p19 62 W. Konrad Smigielski in John Holliday, ed, City Centre Redevelopment, Charles Knight, 1973, p154 63 Colin Buchanan, Traffic in Towns, Penguin, 1964, p32 64 Peter and
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of things. By the early sixties he had been named Man of the Year by the Architects’ Journal; been chosen by Colin Buchanan to sit on his Traffic in Towns government committee; and was close friends with that formidable champion of local government, Dame Evelyn Sharp of the Ministry of Housing. In the midst of
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Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
by Daniel Knowles · 27 Mar 2023 · 278pp · 91,332 words
who saw the rise of the automobile as inevitable and desirable. The postwar city would become what Sir Colin Buchanan, a civil servant in Britain’s department of planning, called, “one of the most interesting reconstructions in Europe.” He was the author of “Traffic in Towns,” a government paper published in 1963 that generated so
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mitigated, rather than stopped. The moment that the car could have been contained was then, in the 1960s. Instead, everything was changed to accommodate it. “Traffic in Towns” begins with a brilliantly ominous explanation of the coming calamity. When Buchanan did his
Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
by Charles Loft · 27 Mar 2013 · 383pp · 98,179 words
. Marples was fascinated by the prospect of rebuilding urban Britain to accommodate the motor car and was heavily influenced by Professor Colin Buchanan’s 1958 book Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain. He appointed Buchanan to produce a report, Traffic in Towns, published in November 1963, which put forward expensive proposals for reconstructing cities to cope
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, treble by the 1980s. Present plans will cope with traffic between towns. But in the towns congestion and stagnation will soon become intolerable – unless we radically step up the scale of our attack… [The Buchanan Report] will inevitably show that the problem goes far wider than traffic. The people must come first
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issue Hall identified was urban traffic. Although it was the publication of Buchanan’s report on Traffic in Towns, in November 1963, that highlighted this problem publicly, the Transport and Housing ministries had begun laying the foundations of a joint group on traffic and urban planning in the spring of 1961. Hall’s report warned that
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Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
by John Boughton · 14 May 2018 · 325pp · 89,374 words
the passing world where they want it’, he argued.4 In an updated application of Radburn principles, given impetus by Colin Buchanan’s influential 1963 report, Traffic in Towns, a strict separation of cars and people was embedded into the plans. Garaging was provided, with service roads to the rear base of the blocks, while
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
by Christian Wolmar · 1 Mar 2009 · 493pp · 145,326 words
1965, p. 582. 21 Henshaw, The Great Railway Conspiracy, p. 117. 22 Ibid. 23 The Buchanan report on traffic, published in 1963, specifically warned that new roads would inevitably clog up. Ministry of Transport, Traffic in Towns (The Buchanan Report), HMSO, 1963. 24 I have happy memories of travelling as a child to Louth from
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
LCC for implementation. Crucial was the issue of traffic. Here the radicalism of the Tatton Browns and the Smithsons for radical separation was taken forward in what amounted to a part two to Abercrombie, Colin Buchanan’s Traffic in Towns report (1963). This regarded the prospect of traffic as so cataclysmic that London would be
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. Playing with people for a new Glasgow 59. Sorry for the mistake: the new Glasgow falls 60. Tomorrow’s London: people in the sky from Traffic in Towns (1963) 61. It can work, just: Newcastle’s Byker Community Trust 62. Brutalist Desert: Barbican Podium, 1962–82 63. Inside-out: Lloyd’s of
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, 144 Brunelleschi, Filippo 55, 63 brutalism 197, 205, 215–18, 219, 223, 224, 226, 239 Bryanston School (Dorset) 162, 247 Brydon, John 169 Buchanan, Sir Colin: Traffic in Towns report (1963) 203, 208, 211, 220 Bucharest 266 building acts: 17th century 109 18th century 109 20th century 179, 180, 203, 204–5, 230
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RIBA Collections/Martin Charles: 46, 47; Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: 18 (© Crown copyright, RCAHMW); Shutterstock: 8, 28, 31, 32, 40, 42, 44, 50; St Mary’s Church, Beverley: 19; Ministry of Transport, HMSO: 60 (Colin Buchanan, Traffic in Towns, 1963); University of Cambridge, Judge Business School: 64; Wikimedia Commons
Are Trams Socialist?: Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
by Christian Wolmar · 19 May 2016 · 79pp · 24,875 words
planet, and particularly in urban areas, the space available for cars is not limitless. Indeed, it is highly constrained. The road lobby has, therefore, devoted the thrust of its efforts to trying to make it less constrained. The apogee of this line of thinking was the publication of the Buchanan Report – Traffic in Towns – in
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1963. The motorways were beginning to tackle the inter-urban traffic jams that regularly hit the headlines, most notoriously on the Exeter bypass in the summer, but the roads in towns were becoming clogged and the congestion was unbearable. Even in relatively
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Wheels: A Study of the Roads Lobby, p. 36.Routledge & Kegan Paul. Bagwell and Lyth (2002, p. 94). Quoted in C. Reid (2015, p. 58). House of Commons Debates, 9 May 1977, volume 931,983. C. Buchanan. 1963. Traffic in Towns: A Study of the Long Term Problems of Traffic in Urban Areas, p. 47
Urban Transport Without the Hot Air, Volume 1
by Steve Melia · 351pp · 91,133 words
be a guest in our streets” 9 “We are building too many flats” 10 Summary: myths, values and challenges PART II: Sustainable solutions 11 Four options for traffic in towns 12 European cities: inspiration and similarities 13 Carfree developments 14 London: the politics of bucking the trend 15 Progress in other British cities 16
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In 1960, the transport minister Ernest Marples set up a committee to write the report ‘Traffic in towns’, which became an unlikely paperback success.269 The Buchanan report, as it became known was written at a time of transition, and of expectation. It began with an uncannily prescient forecast of future car ownership (see Figure
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for this (Figure 11.3). Note the different levels on which pedestrians and vehicles of different kinds can access the buildings. Figure 11.3 Penn Center, Philadelphia, taken from ‘Traffic in towns’ (Buchanan report, 1961) Multi-level vehicular access has been tried in many places around the world since
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then (think of major airport terminals, for example), but it was never going to provide a general solution to the problem of traffic in towns. Elevated roads damage urban environments and reduce neighbouring property values
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10 Summary: myths, values and challenges 267 See for example the government’s definition of ‘sustainable development’ within (2012) ‘National planning policy framework’. On: www.gov.uk. 268 Goodall, Chris (2013) Sustainability – all that matters. Abingdon: Hodder Education. 11 Four options for traffic in towns 269 Buchanan, C., Douglas (1964) Traffic in towns: The specially shortened edition of
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Planning Association (TCPA) 106 traffic lights 81, 84 cyclist-only phasing 68, 139, 140 switching off 212 traffic management in towns 112–22, 212 Buchanan report 112–16, 117–18, 150, 164, 182 opposition to 147 traffic restraint 16, 42, 114 see also congestion traffic speeds 20 mph zones
A History of British Motorways
by G. Charlesworth · 1 Jan 1984
other trunk roads "real congestion on the inter-urban trunk road system as a whole could be virtually eliminated. " The problems of traffic in towns were coming increasingly to the forefront and transport planning surveys were being carried out in the major conurbations. The White Paper envisaged a change in the balance of expenditure
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. London traffic management. Traffic engineering and contro~ 1962, 4, No. 2. 2. MARLOW M. and EVANS R. Urban congestion survey 1976. Traffic flows and speeds in eight towns and five conurbations. Digest SR 438. TRRL, Crowthorne, 1978. 209 A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOTORWAYS 3. BUCHANAN C.D. et al. Traffic in towns. Report of the Working Group. HMSO
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
of roads, each sized according to the intended traffic load and deliberately less well-integrated than in a grid layout to minimise opportunities for rat runs An exceptionally clear statement of the principles of hierarchy came in the 1963 Buchanan Report, Traffic in Towns:‘The function of the distributory network is to canalise the longer
The Miracle Pill
by Peter Walker · 21 Jan 2021 · 372pp · 98,659 words
How Cycling Can Save the World
by Peter Walker · 3 Apr 2017 · 231pp · 69,673 words
Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling
by Carlton Reid · 14 Jun 2017 · 309pp · 84,038 words
The City on the Thames
by Simon Jenkins · 31 Aug 2020
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
by Iain Gately · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 104,411 words