Boom Cities: Architect Planners And The Politics Of Radical Urban Renewal In 1960S Britain Otto Saumarez Smith Oxford University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία

Boom Cities Is The First Published History Of Profound Transformations British City Centres In 1960S It Has Often Been Said That Urban Planners Did More Damage To Britain\ S Than Even Luftwaffe Had Managed And This Study Details Rise Fall Modernist Planning Revealing Its Origins Dissolution Cross-Party Consensus Before Ideological Smearing Ever Since Characterized High-Rise Towers Dizzying Ring Roads Concrete Precincts Were Left Behind Rebuilding During Drastically Affected Built Form Britain Including Places Ranging From Traditional Cathedral Through Decaying Towns Industrial Revolution Uncovers Both Philosophy Political Cultural Legislative Background Created Conditions For These Processes Occur Across Country Reveals Role Architect-Planners Volume Also Provides An Unconventional Account End Approaches Environment Showing Perspective Policy Elites Rather Emergence Public Opposition Σελίδες: 208 Διαστάσεις: 14 7X14 7Cm