The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social history...

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William Ashworth

The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning

A Study in Economic and Social history...

William Ashworth

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Routledge
01 November 2024

City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government.

The author begins with an examination of the rapid growth of towns in the nineteenth century and the consequent emergence of inescapable new problems of health, morality, and economic efficiency, and goes on to discuss the chief ways in which a remedy for these problems was sought in the later part of the century. Separate chapters are devoted to new model villages and towns to the spread of suburbs, and to the improvement of already established towns by means of clearance and rebuilding schemes, bye-law control, and efforts of private philanthropy. The final section of the book shows how the successes and failures of earlier attempts at reforms stimulated a demand for something more comprehensive, which found expression in the town planning act of 1909, and ends by considering the influences that brought to the town planning movement a new strength and importance in the 1930s and the war years.

The author has drawn his material from a wide range of government and local authority reports, the writing of philanthropists and social workers, local guides and topographical works and the book will be of great value to those interested in social history, architecture and urban sociology.

By: William Ashworth
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781032947020
ISBN 10: 1032947020
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social history...

“Ashworth’s book, despite the subtitle is essentially a contribution to administrative history, treating the relation of governmental institutions and policies to the problems of town growth. This ‘institutional’ approach is salutary: it shows that British town planning is not the product of rationalistic social theory…” -Eric E. Lampard, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 16, Issue 2 , June 1956 , pp. 269 - 271