‘Piazzadilly!’ : the re-imagining of Piccadilly Circus (1957-72). / Edwards, Bronwen; Gilbert, David.
In: Planning Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 4, 10.2008, p. 455-478.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘Piazzadilly!’ : the re-imagining of Piccadilly Circus (1957-72). / Edwards, Bronwen; Gilbert, David.
In: Planning Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 4, 10.2008, p. 455-478.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - ‘Piazzadilly!’
T2 - the re-imagining of Piccadilly Circus (1957-72)
AU - Edwards, Bronwen
AU - Gilbert, David
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - Between 1957 and 1972, Piccadilly Circus was the object of a series of major plans and comprehensive redevelopment proposals that would have fundamentally transformed the character of this key central London site. The Piccadilly plans have conventionally been seen as part of an assault by modernist planners and property speculators on the established cityscape. Drawing upon recent perspectives that treat plans as both fantasies of metropolitan life and as complex events, this article argues that the unbuilt plans for Piccadilly were more complicated and contested responses to contemporary attitudes towards the city. The article also argues that these visions altered significantly between the late 1950s and the end of the 1960s, particularly in their responses to flows and movement in the city, and their accommodations of the new consumer cultures of the period.
AB - Between 1957 and 1972, Piccadilly Circus was the object of a series of major plans and comprehensive redevelopment proposals that would have fundamentally transformed the character of this key central London site. The Piccadilly plans have conventionally been seen as part of an assault by modernist planners and property speculators on the established cityscape. Drawing upon recent perspectives that treat plans as both fantasies of metropolitan life and as complex events, this article argues that the unbuilt plans for Piccadilly were more complicated and contested responses to contemporary attitudes towards the city. The article also argues that these visions altered significantly between the late 1950s and the end of the 1960s, particularly in their responses to flows and movement in the city, and their accommodations of the new consumer cultures of the period.
KW - London
KW - urban imaginary
KW - urban planning
KW - traffic
KW - consumption
KW - TRANSPORT
KW - ARCHITECTURE
KW - property speculation
KW - Urban History
U2 - 10.1080/02665430802319013
DO - 10.1080/02665430802319013
M3 - Article
VL - 23
SP - 455
EP - 478
JO - Planning Perspectives
JF - Planning Perspectives
SN - 0266-5433
IS - 4
ER -