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Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities

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Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2018-12-27
Publication Date:
2018-12-27
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350067628
ISBN13:
9781350067622
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Weight:
564 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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