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100 1 $aSaumarez Smith, Otto,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBoom cities :$barchitect-planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain /$cOtto Saumarez Smith.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $ax, 198 pages :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aBoom 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. 0The rebuilding of British city centres during the 1960s drastically affected the built form of urban Britain, including places ranging from traditional cathedral cities through to the decaying towns of the industrial revolution. Boom Cities uncovers both the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for these processes to occur across the country.0'Boom Cities' reveals the role of architect-planners in these transformations. The book also provides an unconventional account of the end of modernist approaches to the built environment, showing it from the perspective of planning and policy elites, rather than through the emergence of public opposition to planning.
650 0 $aUrban renewal$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCity planning$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aCity planning.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00862177
650 7 $aUrban renewal.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01162536
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
852 00 $bavelc$hHT169.G7$iS38 2019