Otto Saumarez Smith ( Assistant Professor in Architectural History

Boom Cities

Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Otto Saumarez Smith recounts the fraught history of the urban development of British city centres in the 1960s, uncovering the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for these transformations to occur across the country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780198865193
• ISBN-10: 0198865198
• Artikelnr.: 59543762

Autorenporträt

Otto Saumarez Smith is an architectural and urban historian, and is an Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Optimism, Traffic, and the Historic City in Post-war British
Planning
* 2: Blue, White and Red Heat: Central Government and City Centre
Redevelopment
* 3: Blackburn Goes Pop: City Centre Redevelopment in a Provincial City
* 4: Planning for Affluence: Graeme Shankland and the Political Culture
of the British Left
* 5: Modernism in an Old Country: Lionel Brett, an Establishment
Architect-planner
* 6: The Trajectory of Central Area Redevelopment
* Bibliography