Third International Workshop on Settlement Reconstruction Post‐War, Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, 22–24 July, 1991

The Workshop had four main aims: to provide an international forum to discuss the possible implications of different reconstruction policies; to receive reports on recent experiences, developments and advances in reconstruction and to review interdisciplinary thinking on the subject; to explore reconstruction issues of particular research interest (settlement planning, outside intervention, local participation, socio-cultural and economic dimensions and environmental impacts); and to reach conclusions on ways of involving governments and international bodies in the development and application of sound policies to promote successful reconstruction.
Moreover, the Workshop was planned with a wider aspiration in mind; namely, to make the reconstruction policies of governments more responsive to the needs of people, through encouraging a network of workshops to promote such policies, disseminate knowledge and monitor practice across the world. More than 40 delegates, from twenty countries, attended the Workshop and 25 papers were presented.
R.J. Green (Town Planner, Totnes, Devon) spoke about Britain's experience in reconstruction after the Second World War and drew a number of lessons which, he claimed, had international implications. Acknowledging remarkable achievements in physical recon-struction, education, health and housing in the two decades following the War, he nevertheless pointed out that many of Britain's post-war plans failed to achieve their long term aims. He suggested two ways in which resources could be made to fit future reconstruction needs. Firstly, at the international level, some proportion of national taxation could be devoted to a reconstruction fund, administered by the United Nations, to be made available for projects sup-