“History, Social Reform, Model Communities, and Post-Industrial Urban Ills
History has revealed that industrialization manifests great impacts upon the urban situ, and from the early-1800s the negative imp acts of industrial transition were noticeable owing to mounting dirt, disease and deprivation within ritish settlements. As such Edwin Chadwick, a pioneering English civil servant, was among the first to admit something now globally acknowledged: industrial transition and its collaborator rapid urban growth are a cultural paradox. On the one hand they encourage, amongst other things, social unease, slum building and individualism through the endorsement of competition over co-operation. Yet on the other hand they can be engines of betterment by conquering age-old problems, initiating new human relationships and thinking processes. Taking into consideration this incongruity this proposal scrutinizes an internationally-recognized post-industrial reform paradigm, the Garden City idea. The model, with its socio-economic strategies analogous with Sustainability, demonstrated civilizing elements of present-day pertinence in addressing the inevitability of economic and social predicaments in the evolving urban context: existing cultural, legal, economic and political systems can harness societal betterment if carefully managed; improved living conditions can be established via means of land purchase and reform, in particular through the co-operative ownership of land. Accordingly by referring to historical model communities, this paper will reveal how nations can be dynamic, assiduous and progressive as a consequence of enshrining social harmony concepts originally executed in experimental social settlements within their legal structures, and concurrently how traditions in the post-industrial situation can be utilized to ensure social assimilation.
Historicism social reform urbanization capitalism model communities.
Ian Morley
Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR
国际会议
杭州
英文
2007-10-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）