Description
| Product ID: | 9780691193755 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Foundations |
| Subtitle: | How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Dr Sam Wetherell |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, History of art, City and town planning: architectural aspects, History of architecture, European history, History, History, Social and cultural history, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Art & design styles: from c 1960, City & town planning - architectural aspects, History of architecture, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Urban & municipal planning |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. |
| Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-13 |