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1 online resource (231 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Milton Keynes in British history; Decline, status and postwar landscapes; Chapter summaries; 1 Landscape value in modern Britain; Modernity and landscape value; From Howard to new towns: mourning and urban change; Second World War: technocracy ascendant; Declinism, postcolonial melancholia, and postwar planning; White heat" and reforming the reconstruction movement; North Bucks New City; 2 The Plan for Milton Keynes, 1967-1972; Initial responses, 1967 |
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MKDC marketing and the Interim Report, 1967-1969The Plan for Milton Keynes, 1970; The Plan in national media, 1970-1971; (Relative) radio silence, 1971-1972; 3 The post-tower-block city? 1972-1975; The Heath government and the ideology of public spending, 1970-1974; Milton Keynes, the post-tower-block city? 1972-1975; Crisis and urban planning, 1973-1975; 4 Mirroring England, mirroring decline, 1976-1978; The IMF crisis and signification spirals, 1976; Milton Keynes and the crisis of over-absorption; The Facts"; Dissenting voices: Jack Trevor Story; A Mirror of England", 1978 |
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5 The Concrete Cows, 1978-1979Concrete community art in Milton Keynes; The electric whale; Media context: The Winter of Discontent; MKDC responses: "Our nation needs a new shop window"; 6 "You've never seen anything like it": the aspirational turn, 1979-1986; The Shopping Building; Thatcher comes to Milton Keynes; The Point, Energy World and novel landscapes; Media and popular culture responses; 7 Milton Keynes and "the middle", c. 1980-1989; The shifting centre in British politics; Thatcherite spatial politics: the middle against the radical fringe; Best of both worlds?" |
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Postwar landscapes in 1980s Britain8 The wind-up, c. 1986-1992; In on the joke?; Approaching 'the wind up'; Basildon Man and the meanings of new towns; Perpetuating the myths? Image and reality; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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New towns -- England -- Milton Keynes
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City planning -- England -- Milton Keynes
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City planning.
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New towns.
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Milton Keynes (England) -- History
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England -- Milton Keynes.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429816185 |
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0429816189 |
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9780429816178 |
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0429816170 |
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