Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain - Saumarez Smith, Otto (Assistant Professor in Architectural History, Assistant Professor in Architectural History, University of Warwick) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780198865193 - September 3, 2020
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Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain

Saumarez Smith, Otto (Assistant Professor in Architectural History, Assistant Professor in Architectural History, University of Warwick)

Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain

In this volume, Otto Saumarez Smith recounts the fraught history of the urban development of British city centres in the 1960s, uncovering the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for these transformations to occur across the country.


208 pages, 37 black and white figures/illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 3, 2020
ISBN13 9780198865193
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 208
Dimensions 216 × 139 × 14 mm   ·   282 g