Helen Meller

Towns, Plans and Society in Modern Britain

Herausgeber: Kirby, Maurice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise survey of how, and why, the urban environment has changed in Britain over the past two centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 201g
• ISBN-13: 9780521576444
• ISBN-10: 052157644X
• Artikelnr.: 22116459

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Understanding cities: the impact of mass urbanisation
3. Ideals and experiments in modern urban living, 1860-1914
4. Town planning in a free society: the inter war period
5. The golden age of planning: 'Building the better Britain', 1942-65
6. Crisis of identity for cities and town planners, 1965-79
7. Thatcherism and cities: the new context for planners
8. Economic imperatives and urban regeneration: a new culture of cities?
Appendix
Bibliography.