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.

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• Isbns: 9780198836407; 0198836406
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)1159777666

Publication Statement

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

Physical Description

• Extent: 224 pages :
• Dimensions: 22 cm
• Illustrations: illustrations (black and white) ;

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. The rebuilding of British city centres during the 1960s drastically affected the built form of urban Britain, including places ranging from traditional cathedral cities through to the decaying towns of the industrial revolution.

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