Foundations - How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

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.

About the author

Sam Wetherell is lecturer in the history of Britain and the world at the University of York. Twitter @samwetherell

Summary

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park.

Additional text

"Stimulating. . . . [Foundations] is an extraordinarily accomplished and engaging piece of work. It should be read by anyone working on modern Britain as well as those with more specialist interests."---William Whyte, Journal of Modern History

Product details

• Authors: Dr Sam Wetherell, Sam Wetherell
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780691241760
• ISBN: 978-0-691-24176-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Urban and municipal planning and policy