Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities
Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities
Seiten
2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-06762-2 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-06762-2 (ISBN)
Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945. How did politicians, civil servants and local authorities manage to produce the cities we live in today? Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities examines the underlying processes and pressures, especially financial and bureaucratic, which shaped postwar urbanism in Britain.
Catherine Flinn integrates architectural planning with in-depth economic and political analyses of Britain's blitzed cities for the first time. She examines early reconstruction arrangements, the postwar economic apparatus and the challenges of postwar physical planning across the country, while providing insightful case studies from the cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool.
By addressing the ideology versus the reality of reconstruction in postwar Britain, Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities highlights the importance of economic and political factors for understanding the British postwar built environment.
Catherine Flinn integrates architectural planning with in-depth economic and political analyses of Britain's blitzed cities for the first time. She examines early reconstruction arrangements, the postwar economic apparatus and the challenges of postwar physical planning across the country, while providing insightful case studies from the cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool.
By addressing the ideology versus the reality of reconstruction in postwar Britain, Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities highlights the importance of economic and political factors for understanding the British postwar built environment.
Catherine Flinn is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her main research interest is the impact of politics and economics on the architecture and landscape of modern Britain.
List of Abbreviations
List of Persons & Affiliations
List of Illustrations
Preface: In Spite of Planning
1. Introduction: Did the Planners “Cut the Heart Out of our Cities”?
2. Considering Reconstruction, 1940-1945
3. Treasury Mandarins: The Apparatus of Postwar Economic Planning
4. Central Control?: The Challenges of Postwar Physical Planning
5. Local Constraints: The Cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool
6. Postwar Rebuilding: Hopeful Plans Become Different Realities
7. Rebuilding Blitzed City Centres Despite Planning
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.12.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 549 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-06762-8 / 1350067628 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-06762-2 / 9781350067622 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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