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The Life and Death of the Shopping City - Alistair Kefford

The Life and Death of the Shopping City

Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-79916-4 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.
How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day crisis of high street retailing and central area economies. Alistair Kefford shows how planners, property developers, councils and retailers worked together to create the modern shopping city, remaking the physical fabric, economy and experience of cities around this retail-driven developmental model. This book also offers a wider social history of mass affluence, showing how cities were transformed to meet the perceived demands of a society of shoppers, and why this effort was felt to be so urgent in an era of urban deindustrialisation. By bringing the story of the shopping city right up to its present-day crisis and collapse, Kefford makes clear how the historical trajectories traced in this book continue powerfully to shape urban Britain today.

Alistair Kefford is Assistant Professor at Leiden University where he teaches history and urban studies. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, and a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. He worked for a number of years in local government planning and continues to engage with contemporary urban policy and regeneration. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals of history and urban studies and his research into 'the death of the high street' has been featured in high-profile publications such as The Financial Times.

Introduction; 1. Reconstructing Retail in the 1940s; 2. Cities in the Age of Affluence; 3. Making the Modern Shopping City; 4. The Politics of Partnership; 5. Landscapes of Leisure; 6. Demand and Discontent in the Shopping City; 7. Triumph of the Shopping City; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Modern British Histories
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 512 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-79916-7 / 1108799167
ISBN-13 978-1-108-79916-4 / 9781108799164
Zustand Neuware
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