03265oam 22007454a 450 991096555170332120240506134547.097815261141741526114178978152613606015261360669781526114167152611416X10.7765/9781526114167(CKB)3840000000342508(MiAaPQ)EBC5294908(StDuBDS)EDZ0001928921(OCoLC)1054010128(MdBmJHUP)muse77770(DE-B1597)659051(DE-B1597)9781526114167(Perlego)1525707(EXLCZ)99384000000034250820171122d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReconstructing modernitySpace, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities /James Greenhalgh1st ed.Manchester :Manchester University Press,2018.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2020©2018.1 online resource (226 pages) illustrations, maps, photographsPrevious edition issued in print: 2018.9781526114143 1526114143 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Reconstructing modernity -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Fantasies of urban futures -- 2 The functioning metropolis -- 3 The city and the suburban village -- 4 The spaces of everyday life -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who shaped these processes. It challenges traditional views of urban modernism and sheds new light on the importance of the immediate post-war for the trajectory of planned urban renewal in 20th century. It examines plans and policies designed to produce and govern lived spaces - shopping centres, housing estates, parks, schools and homes - and shows how and why they succeeded or failed.Urban renewalfast(OCoLC)fst01162536Cities and townsGrowthfast(OCoLC)fst00861781Urban renewalGreat BritainHistory20th centuryCities and townsGreat BritainGrowthHistory20th centuryGreat BritainfastHistory.Modernity.Planning.Rebuilding.Reconstruction.Social Housing.Urban Modernism.Urban renewal.Cities and townsGrowth.Urban renewalHistoryCities and townsGrowthHistory711.40942565Greenhalgh James847857MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910965551703321Reconstructing modernity4367633UNINA