The Modern British City 1945-2000
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-729-3 (ISBN)
For much of the first two-thirds of the 20th century, ‘modern’ in the British urban context meant the purging of the Victorian past. Even so, much of the terraced housing and the monumental architecture of city centres still dated from the 19th century. Disdained by architectural critics in the first half of the 20th century, structures like Covent Garden’s Market Building, Manchester’s Royal Exchange and Liverpool’s Albert Dock would become pivots of the conservation and restoration movement which accompanied Britain’s ‘urban renaissance’ from the 1970s onwards.
As this book shows, after 1950 a series of long-term historical processes combined to transform the British city. Mass automobility brought with it motorways, underpasses and flyovers. Deindustrialisation left a profound mark on large areas of urban Britain, with enduring consequences for the communities affected. Immigration not only brought more diverse people and voices to British cities than ever before, but with them, a fresh variety of stores, restaurants, places of worship and venues for entertainment. Likewise, urban planning and the fruits of consumerism left their mark in the ubiquitous presence of civic centres, shopping malls and cultural quarters. The book shows how these processes did not operate separately, but in complex inter-relationship with one another, often producing unintended outcomes.
The result was cities where the past and the present were juxtaposed, adding to rather than diminishing their sense of place. This book will enrich our understanding of why British cities are as they are today, in all their messiness and mutability.
Simon Gunn is Emeritus Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester. Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. Otto Saumarez Smith is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Warwick.
Preface; 1. Introduction: From the Victorian City to the Modern City, Simon Gunn and Otto Saumarez Smith; Part I: Ideas in the Air. 2. Urbanism After the Victorian City, Guy Ortolano; 3. Fuelling the City, Divya Subramanian; 4. Visible Cities: A Screen Tour in Ten Scenes, John Wyver; 5. The Community Architecture Movement, Holly Smith. Part II: People on the Ground. 6. Shifting Visions of Working-Class Community in Post-War England, Jon Lawrence; 7. Multicultural British Cities, Elizabeth Buettner; 8. Gentrification, John Davis; 9. On Queer Street, Matt Cook; 10. Students and the City, Keith Vernon; 11. The Jogger, the Mugger and the Hipster, Peter Mandler. Part III: Sites and Places. 12. The Active Suburb, Laura Balderstone; 13. The Inner City and the Welfare State, Nicholas Bullock; 14. A City Hidden in Plain Sight: Planning and Architecture in Southampton, Owen Hatherley; 15. Conservation, Planning and Regeneration, John Pendlebury. Part IV: The Urban Economy. 16. Market Places and Piazzas, Sarah Mass; 17. Ports and Port Cities, David Edgerton; 18. On the (King’s) Road: The Best Street in London, Lawrence Black; 19. Redeveloping the City, Alistair Kefford; 20. The Unmaking of the Industrial City, Christopher Lawson. Part V: Everyday Politics. 21. Waiting, Queuing, Traffic and Delays in Northern Ireland in the Troubles, Erika Hanna; 22. Women’s Activism and the Post-War City, Krista Cowman; 23. ‘After the Rhythm Comes the Blues’: Race, Racism and Urban Space in Notting Hill, Saima Nasar; 24. ‘In the Workhouse’? Homelessness in London, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite; 25. Faith in the City, William Whyte. Part VI: Border Crossings. 26. Travelling Through the City: Access for All? Colin Pooley; 27. Scrambled Towns, Otto Saumarez Smith; 28. Music and the Revival of Urban Night Life, Simon Gunn; 29. Afterword: The Five Phases of the Modern British City, Peter Mandler; Image Credits; Notes on Contributors; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Includes 115 colour and b&w illustrations; 115 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 250 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84822-729-9 / 1848227299 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84822-729-3 / 9781848227293 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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