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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Main Author: Saumarez Smith, Otto ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
Edition:First edition
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:'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
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780191873676
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198836407.001.0001

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