Foundations How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private fl...

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1. Verfasser: Wetherell, Sam 1986- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2020]
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Adam Page
Alison Ravetz
Anna Minton
Building Research Station
Catherine Flinn
Charlotte Wildman
Dawn Foster
Erika Rappaport
Frank Mort
Helen Meller
James Meek
Jordanna Bailkin
Judith Walkowitz
Judy Giles
Kennetta Hammond Perry
Kieran Connell
Lewis Mumford
Margaret Thatcher
Otto Saumerez Smith;Boom Cities;Guy Ortolano;Thatcher's Progress;James Greenhalgh;Reconstructing Modernity;John Boughton;Municipal Dreams;Alistair Kefford;Planning for Affluence;private housing estate;business park;architecture;architectural engineering;Greater London;social engineering;England;urban planning;United Kingdom;social infrastructure;public housing;Stockley Park
Rosemary Wakeman
Sarah Mass
Simon Gunn
Team Valley
Victor Gruen
state-directed development
urban forms
urban history
urban infrastructure
urban landscape
urban space
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Architecture and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century
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Sociology, Urban > Great Britain > History > 20th century
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Zusammenfassung:An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these spaces transformed Britain’s politics, economy, and society, helping forge a midcentury developmental state and shaping the rise of neoliberalism after 1980.From the mid-twentieth century, spectacular new types of urban space were created in order to help remake Britain’s economy and society. Government-financed industrial estates laid down infrastructure to entice footloose capitalists to move to depressed regions of the country. Shopping precincts allowed politicians to plan precisely for postwar consumer demand. Public housing modernized domestic life and attempted to create new communities out of erstwhile strangers. In the latter part of the twentieth century many of these spaces were privatized and reimagined as their developmental aims were abandoned. Industrial estates became suburban business parks. State-owned shopping precincts became private shopping malls. The council estate was securitized and enclosed. New types of urban space were imported from American suburbia, and planners and politicians became increasingly skeptical that the built environment could remake society. With the midcentury built environment becoming obsolete, British neoliberalism emerged in tense negotiation with the awkward remains of built spaces that had to be navigated and remade.Taking readers to almost every major British city as well as to places in the United States and Britain’s empire, Foundations highlights how some of the major transformations of twentieth-century British history were forged in the everyday spaces where people lived, worked, and shopped
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (272 pages) 43 b/w illus
ISBN:9780691208558
DOI:10.1515/9780691208558

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