Boom cities : architect planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain /

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Author / Creator:	Saumarez Smith, Otto, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	Urban renewal -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. City planning -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12685096

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ISBN:	9780191873676 (ebook) : No price
Notes:	Previously issued in print: 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 8, 2019).
Summary:	'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.
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version : 9780198836407

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