04884nam 22008051a 450 991059714740332120200514202323.097814742573981474257399978147425737414742573729781474257381147425738010.5040/9781474257398(CKB)3710000000841112(EBL)4659871(PQKBManifestationID)16446094(PQKBWorkID)14993705(PQKB)21854045(MiAaPQ)EBC4659871(MiAaPQ)EBC6160355(OCoLC)948748782(UkLoBP)bpp09260202(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92866(UkLoBP)BP9781474257398BC(EXLCZ)99371000000084111220161128d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUrban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 /Charlotte WildmanLondon ;New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc20161 online resource (303 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781350063839 1350063835 9781474257367 1474257364 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 -- "Soaring Skyward" : Urban Regeneration -- Civic Week Celebrations -- "For Profit or Pleasure" : New Cultures of Retail, Shopping and Consumer Culture -- Performing Fashionable Selfhoods in the Transformed City -- Gender, Religious Selfhoods and the City -- The Cathedral That Never Was? -- Conclusion: The Second World War and the Challenge to Interwar Urban Culture."Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars."--Provided by publisher."Faced with economic decline, unprecedented levels of unemployment and new forms of political extremism during Britain's last great economic crash, politicians and planners in Liverpool and Manchester responded by investing in dramatic and ambitious programmes of urban regeneration. Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 is the first book to provide the hitherto unknown story of the innovative transformation of these cities. Charlotte Wildman challenges academic scholarship in British history, which associates the post-1918 period with the emasculation of local government and the decline of civic culture. She shows that local politicians, planners, architects, businessmen and even religious leaders embraced innovative trends in creating distinct forms of urban modernities, which particularly changed the way women experienced the transformed city. Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 offers a complex, interactive and multipolar interpretation of the ways cities develop, pointing to new methods and ways of understanding both interwar Britain and urban history more generally. At a time of debate and discussion about devolution and decentralisation of government, this book makes an opportune contribution to debates about urban governance and regionalism in contemporary Britain"--Provided by publisher.Urban renewalEnglandLiverpoolHistory20th centuryUrban renewalEnglandManchesterHistory20th centuryCity and town lifeEnglandLiverpoolHistory20th centuryCity and town lifeEnglandLiverpoolHistory20th centurySocial changeEnglandLiverpoolHistory20th centurySocial changeEnglandLiverpoolHistory20th centuryLiverpool (England)Social conditions20th centuryManchester (England)Social conditions20th centuryLiverpool (England)Economic conditions20th centuryManchester (England)Economic conditions20th centuryUrban renewalHistoryUrban renewalHistoryCity and town lifeHistoryCity and town lifeHistorySocial changeHistorySocial changeHistory307.3/4160942HIS000000HIS015000HIS037070bisacshWildman Charlotte1262037UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910597147403321Urban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-19392947484UNINA