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

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• Full Title: Boom cities : architect planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain/ Otto Saumarez Smith.

Edition Statement

• First edition.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Optimism, traffic, and the historic city in post-war British planning -- Blue, white, and red heat: central government and city-centre redevelopment -- Blackburn goes pop: city-centre redevelopment in a provincial city -- Planning for affluence: Graeme Shankland and the political culture of the British Left -- Modernism in an old country: Lionel Brett, an establishment architect-planner -- The trajectory of central-area redevelopment.
• Specialized.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 9780191873676; 0191873675
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)1102726906

Publication Statement

• Place: Oxford
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Date: 2019

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource :
• Illustrations: illustrations

Table Of Contents

• Optimism, traffic, and the historic city in post-war British planning -- Blue, white, and red heat: central government and city-centre redevelopment -- Blackburn goes pop: city-centre redevelopment in a provincial city -- Planning for affluence: Graeme Shankland and the political culture of the British Left -- Modernism in an old country: Lionel Brett, an establishment architect-planner -- The trajectory of central-area redevelopment.

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.

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