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