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Twentieth-century suburbs : a morphological approach / J.W.R. Whitehead and C.M.H. Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehand, J. W. R., author.
- Series:
- Planning, history, and the environment series ; 1.
- Planning, history, and the environment series ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suburbs--England--History--20th century.
- Suburbs.
- Real estate development--England--History--20th century.
- Real estate development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages.This book describes the ways in which these suburbs were created, particularly by private enterprise in England in the 1920s and 1930s, the physical forms they took, and how they have changed over time in response to social, economic and cultural change.Twentieth-Century Suburbs is concerned with the history, geo
- Contents:
- 1. Conceptions of suburbs
- 2. The scale and causes of suburban growth
- 3. The anatomy of suburbs
- 4. Developers and architects
- 5. Post-war change
- 6. Change at the microscale
- 7. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-41164-X
- 0-415-86902-1
- 1-315-01303-7
- 1-136-41157-7
- 9781315013039
- OCLC:
- 876600445
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