Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Leslie Ginsburg’s home was in Liverpool: he was educated at Liverpool College and at the School of Architecture, Liverpool University, until he joined the Royal Engineers at the start of the Second World War.
Continue reading Leslie Ginsburg and the early years of the School of Planning
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
The 1980’s – what a strange decade for town and country planning and what a varied one for the School of Planning.
Politically, it was the decade of Thatcher – anti planning, and public investment, anti state and local government control.
The School of Planning operated, therefore, within a hostile national political environment and the decade started badly with a cull of town planning courses throughout the country. For a year or so the School was under threat of closure along with many other Planning Schools. This threat was successfully fought off, though many other schools did close. The saving of the Birmingham School was very much down to the leadership of David Leyland who was Head of School from 1978 to 1983.
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Way back in 1970 I was a student on the MSc in Town Planning at what is now UCE Birmingham. We had to prepare a “District Plan” for Handsworth, from Soho Road to the Outer Circle.
