This paper takes the development of the British town planning movement as its starting point to explore a series of challenges for the discipline’s historiography. The emergence of the professional field involved the circulation of ideas beyond the metropolitan core to colonial territories with spatial interventions that were deemed both physically and morally beneficial. The paper explores the role played by the discipline in developing spatialized forms of ethnic and racial differentiation within colonial territories. I conclude that British planning has largely ignored its own historiography, including the colonial legacy, enabling the discipline to assert its role as a socially progressive profession.

本文以英国城市规划运动的发展为切入点，探讨该学科史学面临的一系列挑战。专业领域的出现涉及通过被认为对身体和道德都有益的空间干预，将思想从大都市核心传播到殖民领土。本文探讨了该学科在发展殖民地领土内种族和种族分化的空间化形式方面所发挥的作用。我的结论是，英国的规划在很大程度上忽略了它自己的历史编纂，包括殖民遗产，使该学科能够发挥其作为社会进步职业的作用。