| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Abbreviations -- List of Persons & Affiliations -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: In Spite of Planning -- 1. Introduction: Did the Planners 'Cut the Heart Out of our Cities'? -- 2. Considering Reconstruction, 1940-1945 -- 3. Treasury Mandarins: The Apparatus of Postwar Economic Planning -- 4. Central Control?: The Challenges of Postwar Physical Planning -- 5. Local Constraints: The Cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool -- 6. Postwar Rebuilding: Hopeful Plans Become Different Realities -- 7. Rebuilding Blitzed City Centres Despite Planning -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945. How did politicians, civil servants and local authorities manage to produce the cities we live in today? Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities examines the underlying processes and pressures, especially financial and bureaucratic, which shaped postwar urbanism in Britain. Catherine Flinn integrates architectural planning with in-depth economic and political analyses of Britain's blitzed cities for the first time. She examines early reconstruction arrangements, the postwar economic apparatus and the challenges of postwar physical planning across the country, while providing insightful case studies from the cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool. By addressing the ideology versus the reality of reconstruction in postwar Britain, Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities highlights the importance of economic and political factors for understanding the British postwar built environment."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed Decmeber 11, 2018) |
| Subject |
Urban renewal -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Great Britain
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Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction -- Great Britain
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City planning -- Great Britain
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Economic history.
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Social & cultural history.
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History of architecture.
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British & Irish history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction
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City planning
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Reconstruction (1939-1951)
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Urban renewal
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781350067646 |
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1350067644 |
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9781350067639 |
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1350067636 |
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