ISBN:
9780429816185
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Serie:
Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
711.40942591
Schlagwort(e):
New towns-England-Milton Keynes
;
City planning-England-Milton Keynes
;
Milton Keynes (England)-History
Kurzfassung:
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 -- MKDC marketing and the Interim Report, 1967-1969 -- The 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 -- 5 The Concrete Cows, 1978-1979 -- Concrete 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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