02630nam 2200649 a 450 991045947240332120200520144314.01-4529-4613-20-8166-7343-8(CKB)2670000000052460(EBL)592801(OCoLC)670429493(SSID)ssj0000428675(PQKBManifestationID)11272502(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428675(PQKBWorkID)10424980(PQKB)11631754(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177308(MiAaPQ)EBC592801(MdBmJHUP)muse29785(Au-PeEL)EBL592801(CaPaEBR)ebr10421838(CaONFJC)MIL523205(EXLCZ)99267000000005246020100113d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe spiv and the architect[electronic resource] unruly life in postwar London /Richard HornseyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5315-1 0-8166-5314-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.Explores how London's queer culture was influenced by postwar efforts to create model citizensHomosexualityEnglandLondonHistory20th centuryReconstruction (1939-1951)EnglandLondonUrban policyEnglandLondonHistory20th centuryLondon (England)Social conditions20th centuryLondon (England)Social life and customs20th centuryElectronic books.HomosexualityHistoryReconstruction (1939-1951)Urban policyHistory363.4/90942109045Hornsey Richard Quentin Donald1034523MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459472403321The spiv and the architect2453704UNINA