Foundations : : How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain / / Sam Wetherell.

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private fl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 43 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Industrial Estate
  • 2. The Shopping Precinct
  • 3. The Council Estate
  • 4. The Private Housing Estate
  • 5. The Shopping Mall
  • 6. The Business Park
  • 7. Conclusion: The Burden of Obsolescence
  • Notes
  • Index