The Age of Ecology in the UK

Penny Lewis

doi:10.4324/9781003118985-29

The Age of Ecology in the UK

Penny Lewis

Architecture and Urban Planning

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The Age of Ecology was short-lived; it began with the post-war boom and ended with the adoption of the environmentalism into the mainstream in the mid-1970s. In the process of developing a new approach to the discipline, post-war architectural thinkers explored a range of ideas including ecological and systems theory. Erwin Anton Gutkind’s adoption of ecology appears to be driven by an aspiration to create new institutional frameworks that could prevent the reoccurrence of war rather than more conventional environmental concerns about resource depletion or over-population. The relationship between planning, instrumental thought and the complexity of social life underpins the discussion on post-war reconstruction. It appears that the ecological imagination in the 1950s and 1960s played some role in the development of thinking about the city and the relationship between planning, authority and the people. This discourse was cut short and placed in the back burner because it was understood as being in opposition to questions of social justice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Architecture and Collective Life
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	274-283
Number of pages	10
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003118985
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003118985-29
Publication status	Published - 9 Sept 2021

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Architecture and Collective Life
Lewis, P. (Editor), Holm, L. (Editor) & Costa Santos, S. (Editor), 26 Oct 2021, 1st ed. London and New York: Routledge. 376 p. (AHRA Critiques: Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities; vol. 16)
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Epilogue1
Lewis, P. & Richardson, V., 9 Sept 2021, Architecture and Collective Life. 1 ed. Routledge, p. 293-304 12 p.
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Interview with Reinier de Graaf
Lewis, P., Sept 2021, Architecture and Collective Life. Lewis, P., Holm, L. & Santos, S. C. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 31-41 11 p.
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Interview with Reinier de Graaf

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