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Dr Sam Wetherell

Foundations

How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

Dr Sam Wetherell

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English
Princeton University Press
04 January 2021
Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Art & design styles: from c 1960; City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; Urban & municipal planning
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 flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these spaces transformed Britain's politics, economy, and society, helping forge a midcentury developmental state and shaping the rise of neoliberalism after 1980.

From the mid-twentieth century, spectacular new types of urban space were created in order to help remake Britain's economy and society. Government-financed industrial estates laid down infrastructure to entice footloose capitalists to move to depressed regions of the country. Shopping precincts allowed politicians to plan precisely for postwar consumer demand. Public housing modernized domestic life and attempted to create new communities out of erstwhile strangers. In the latter part of the twentieth century many of these spaces were privatized and reimagined as their developmental aims were abandoned. Industrial estates became suburban business parks. State-owned shopping precincts became private shopping malls. The council estate was securitized and enclosed. New types of urban space were imported from American suburbia, and planners and politicians became increasingly skeptical that the built environment could remake society. With the midcentury built environment becoming obsolete, British neoliberalism emerged in tense negotiation with the awkward remains of built spaces that had to be navigated and remade.

Taking readers to almost every major British city as well as to places in the United States and Britain's empire, Foundations highlights how some of the major transformations of twentieth-century British history were forged in the everyday spaces where people lived, worked, and shopped.
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Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9780691193755
ISBN 10:   0691193754
Pages:   272
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sam Wetherell is lecturer in the history of Britain and the world at the University of York. Twitter @samwetherell

Reviews for Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject An academic modernist sees opportunity in disruption. ---John Gapper, Financial Times [A] brilliant new history. . . . A highly convincing book, with the sort of clarity and panoramic scope that is too often, in books on this subject, lost in architectural and decorative minutiae. ---Owen Hatherley, Tribune Magazine Elegantly written. . . . [A] timely contribution. ---Alistair Fair, Architectural History


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