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The modern British city 1945-2000 / edited by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith.

Van Pelt Library HT133 .M63 2025
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gunn, Simon, 1954- editor.
Mandler, Peter, editor.
Saumarez Smith, Otto, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cities and towns--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns--History.
Sociology, Urban--History.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Lund Humphries, 2025.
Contents:
Introduction : from the Victorian city to the modern city / Simon Gunn and Otto Saumarez Smith
Urbanism after the Victorian city / Guy Ortolano
Fuelling the city / Divya Subramanian
Visible cities : a screen tour in ten scenes / John Wyver
The community architecture movement / Holly Smith
Shifting visions of working-class community in post-war England / Jon Lawrence
Multicultural British cities / Elizabeth Buettner
Gentrification / John Davis
On Queer Street / Matt Cook
Students and the city / Keith Vernon
The jogger, the mugger and the hipster : figures in the cityscape since the 1960s / Peter Mandler
The active suburb / Laura Balderstone
The inner city and the welfare state : the example of Newham / Nicholas Bullock
A city hidden in plain sight : planning and architecture in twentieth-century Southampton / Owen Hatherley
Conservation, planning and regeneration in the post-war English city / John Pendlebury
Market places and piazzas / Sarah Mass
Ports and port cities / David Edgerton
On the (King's) Road : the best street in London / Lawrence Black
Redeveloping the city / Alistair Kefford
The unmaking of the industrial city / Christopher Lawson
Waiting, queuing, traffic and delays in Northern Ireland in the Troubles / Erika Hanna
Women's activism and the post-war city / Krista Cowman
"After the rhythm comes the blues" : race, racism and urban space in Notting Hill / Saima Nasar
"In the workhouse"? : homelessness in London / Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Faith in the city / William Whyte
Travelling through the city : access for all? / Colin Pooley
Scrambled towns / Otto Saumarez Smith
Music and the revival of urban night life / Simon Gunn
Afterword : the five phases of the modern British city / Peter Mandler.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781848227293
1848227299
OCLC:
1504624602
Publisher Number:
CIPO000292585

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