Boom cities: architect planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain

'Boom Cities' is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study details the rise and fall of modernist...

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1. Verfasser: Saumarez Smith, Otto ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:'Boom Cities' is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study details the rise and fall of modernist urban planning, revealing its origins and the dissolution of the cross-party consensus, before the ideological smearing that has ever since characterized the high-rise towers, dizzying ring roads and concrete precincts that were left behind
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780191873676
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198836407.001.0001

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