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  title info:
    title: Boom cities
    sub title: architect-planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain
  name:
    name part: Saumarez Smith, Otto
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  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. The rebuilding of British city centers 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. '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.
  note: Otto Saumarez Smith.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-194) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Urban renewal
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: City planning
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: HT169.G7 S28 2019
  classification: 307.1216094109046
  identifier: 0198836406
  identifier: 9780198836407
  identifier: 2018958838
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180919
    record change date: 20191021075939.0
    record identifier: in00004067382