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Foundations : how the built environment made twentieth-century Britain
- Title
- Foundations : how the built environment made twentieth-century Britain / Sam Wetherell.
- Author
- Wetherell, Sam, 1986-
- Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book is a history of the British built environment from the late nineteenth century to the present. Unlike other urban histories of Britain, the book shows how the city helped produce rather than merely reflect the major intellectual and ideological currents that transformed its recent history. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a different type of urban space in Britain. The first part of the book traces the emergence of the industrial trading estate, the shopping center and the council estate. The second part shows how these three forms mutated into the private block of flats, the out-of-town shopping mall and the suburban office park. The story of these six forms touches on histories of criminology, histories of energy and heating, histories of consumerism and the history of housework and takes the reader to almost every major British city as well as to the United States, Singapore and the Britain's Empire in West Africa. Urban history in Britain has been dormant for too long and its hoped that this book will reignite the field. As the author explains, Foundations will be the first, comprehensive and academic history of Britain's modern built environment and thus will have a large and enduring readership both within and outside the academy"--
- Uniform Title
- Pilot zones
- Alternative Title
- Pilot zones
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2016, under the title: Pilot zones : the new urban environment of twentieth century Britain.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Industrial Estate -- The Shopping Precinct -- The Council Estate -- The Private Housing Estate -- The Shopping Mall -- The Business Park -- Conclusion: The Burden of Obsolescence.
- Call Number
- JQE 20-597
- ISBN
- 9780691193755
- 0691193754
- 9780691208558 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020009358
- OCLC
- 1142945814
- Author
- Wetherell, Sam, 1986- author.
- Title
- Foundations : how the built environment made twentieth-century Britain / Sam Wetherell.
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wetherell, Sam, 1986- Foundations Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 9780691208558 (DLC) 2020009359
- Research Call Number
- JQE 20-597