ISBN:
9780192573476
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (178 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Saumarez Smith, Otto Boom cities
DDC:
307.1216094109046
Keywords:
Urban renewal ; Great Britain ; History ; 20th century
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City planning ; Great Britain ; History ; 20th century
;
Electronic books
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Großbritannien
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Stadtplanung
;
Stadtumbau
;
Städtebau
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Architektur
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Geschichte 1960-1970
Abstract:
'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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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5825753
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