{"id":4808,"date":"2018-12-02T22:31:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2019-02-02T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T22:34:45","slug":"notes-from-rebuilding-britains-blitzed-cities-hopeful-dreams-stark-realities-by-catherine-flinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Rebuilding Britain\u2019s Blitzed Cities: Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities by Catherine Flinn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 152 We have also seen how the wartime rhetoric of\npositive planning carried an assumption that central government would\nlogistically and financially assist the cities in the rebuilding process. In\nthe end, quite the reverse occurred: the central government hampered the\nprocess at least as much as it helped, and a minimal, if not miniscule \u2013 amount\nof financial assistance was given to blitzed cities. The role of private\ninvestment has also been shown to have significant impact on the rebuilding of\ncities \u2013 logistically, financially and visually\u2026. The discourse of blame still\nseen today is directed at architects and planners, but overlooks the economic\nconstraints, the involvement of many different actors and the very different\nideology of the postwar era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>p. 152 We have also seen how the wartime rhetoric of positive planning carried an assumption that central government would logistically and financially assist the cities in the rebuilding process. In the end, quite the reverse occurred: the central government hampered the process at least as much as it helped, and a minimal, if not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}