Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities: Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350067646
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350067622
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 12/27/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Catherine Flinn
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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