Title Foundations : how the built environment made twentieth-century Britain / Sam Wetherell

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : illustrations Contents The Industrial Estate -- The Shopping Precinct -- The Council Estate -- The Private Housing Estate -- The Shopping Mall -- The Business Park -- Conclusion: The Burden of Obsolescence Summary "This book is a history of the British built environment from the late nineteenth century to the present. Unlike other urban histories of Britain, the book shows how the city helped produce rather than merely reflect the major intellectual and ideological currents that transformed its recent history. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a different type of urban space in Britain. The first part of the book traces the emergence of the industrial trading estate, the shopping center and the council estate. The second part shows how these three forms mutated into the private block of flats, the out-of-town shopping mall and the suburban office park. The story of these six forms touches on histories of criminology, histories of energy and heating, histories of consumerism and the history of housework and takes the reader to almost every major British city as well as to the United States, Singapore and the Britain's Empire in West Africa. Urban history in Britain has been dormant for too long and its hoped that this book will reignite the field. As the author explains, Foundations will be the first, comprehensive and academic history of Britain's modern built environment and thus will have a large and enduring readership both within and outside the academy"-- Provided by publisher Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2016, under the title: Pilot zones : the new urban environment of twentieth century Britain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2020) Subject Architecture and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Cities and towns -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Sociology, Urban -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Social History Architecture and society Cities and towns Sociology, Urban Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020009359 ISBN 0691208557 9780691208558

Other Titles Pilot zones

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