Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain
Autor Otto Saumarez Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198865193
ISBN-10: 0198865198
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 37 black and white figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 147 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198865198
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 37 black and white figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 147 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
ingeniously researched, well-written and subtly argued study
if you're interested in the motives that inspired the wholesale reshaping of our town and city centres in the Sixties, he has a tale worth telling ... Boom Cities is well-stocked with interesting and revealing quotes ... 4 stars
Otto Saumarez Smith, author of Boom Cities, a book on postwar planning, writes with balance, perception and wit.
A most terrific book that should, in all honesty, have been written years ago.
Boom Cities is much more than a book about buildings. It is instead a study about town planning, welfare and the politics of affluence, and hence central to the history of mid-20th century Britain. Boom Cities may be a slim volume but it is packed with insights which make it an essential reference point for the new urban social history that is rapidly--and excitingly--emerging.
Saumarez Smith writes deftly and has a deep understanding of his subject
hugely readable and fascinating
Saumarez Smith is a very good writer -- frequently insightful, often very funny. He has convincingly argued that the work and world of the architect-planner are valuable for understanding the complex of forces that transformed city centres in Britain in the 1960s. He has supported that argument through a careful and sympathetic reading of local government and private archives.
This is a brilliantly researched and very readable book.
Saumarez Smith demonstrates that the urban plans of the 1960s were shaped by forces that are still central to contemporary practice: the need to use urban renewal to reduce inequalities and yet serve an affluent citizenry; the requirement to balance the needs of a local community against the developer's profit motive; and the desire to insert new forms into the historic cityscape thoughtfully. The resonances with contemporary practice are clear throughout this book: Boom Cities is therefore essential reading not just for historians of 20th century architecture and urbanism, but also for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the development of the contemporary planning profession.
Otto Saumarez Smith's [has written a] detailed and engrossing book about the mid-20th-century boom in urban redevelopment ... That the book ends with a sense of "tragedy" and "intense disillusionment" is less of a judgement on the characters involved and more on the inherent penny-pinching -- or money-misdirecting, perhaps -- of the British political class when presented with the chance to create a dignifying, elevating, equalising public realm. The strength of Boom Cities lies in its insistence that blaming individuals for the failures of a whole political and economic system is too easy. It makes us see the things that should have been different, and the ways in which they could still be.
In his meticulous new book Boom Cities, Otto Saumarez Smith wishes us to understand British architect-planners' activities in the 1960s and respect their objectives.
Otto Saumarez Smith's Boom Cities is another first-rate book: a deep and detailed dive into the urban history of 1960s Britain. Also based on a doctoral thesis, it is likewise an excellent illustration of an approach—though in this case, of course, he exemplifies one of the many strands of eclecticism...he is far more than a sum of his supervision, his work does draw on both architectural history and Mandler's version of cultural history. It tells the story of architect planners: that small group of men (and they were almost always all men) who redesigned Britain's inner cities in the period between social democratic post war reconstruction and what might be seen as the rise of neoliberalism.
if you're interested in the motives that inspired the wholesale reshaping of our town and city centres in the Sixties, he has a tale worth telling ... Boom Cities is well-stocked with interesting and revealing quotes ... 4 stars
Otto Saumarez Smith, author of Boom Cities, a book on postwar planning, writes with balance, perception and wit.
A most terrific book that should, in all honesty, have been written years ago.
Boom Cities is much more than a book about buildings. It is instead a study about town planning, welfare and the politics of affluence, and hence central to the history of mid-20th century Britain. Boom Cities may be a slim volume but it is packed with insights which make it an essential reference point for the new urban social history that is rapidly--and excitingly--emerging.
Saumarez Smith writes deftly and has a deep understanding of his subject
hugely readable and fascinating
Saumarez Smith is a very good writer -- frequently insightful, often very funny. He has convincingly argued that the work and world of the architect-planner are valuable for understanding the complex of forces that transformed city centres in Britain in the 1960s. He has supported that argument through a careful and sympathetic reading of local government and private archives.
This is a brilliantly researched and very readable book.
Saumarez Smith demonstrates that the urban plans of the 1960s were shaped by forces that are still central to contemporary practice: the need to use urban renewal to reduce inequalities and yet serve an affluent citizenry; the requirement to balance the needs of a local community against the developer's profit motive; and the desire to insert new forms into the historic cityscape thoughtfully. The resonances with contemporary practice are clear throughout this book: Boom Cities is therefore essential reading not just for historians of 20th century architecture and urbanism, but also for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the development of the contemporary planning profession.
Otto Saumarez Smith's [has written a] detailed and engrossing book about the mid-20th-century boom in urban redevelopment ... That the book ends with a sense of "tragedy" and "intense disillusionment" is less of a judgement on the characters involved and more on the inherent penny-pinching -- or money-misdirecting, perhaps -- of the British political class when presented with the chance to create a dignifying, elevating, equalising public realm. The strength of Boom Cities lies in its insistence that blaming individuals for the failures of a whole political and economic system is too easy. It makes us see the things that should have been different, and the ways in which they could still be.
In his meticulous new book Boom Cities, Otto Saumarez Smith wishes us to understand British architect-planners' activities in the 1960s and respect their objectives.
Otto Saumarez Smith's Boom Cities is another first-rate book: a deep and detailed dive into the urban history of 1960s Britain. Also based on a doctoral thesis, it is likewise an excellent illustration of an approach—though in this case, of course, he exemplifies one of the many strands of eclecticism...he is far more than a sum of his supervision, his work does draw on both architectural history and Mandler's version of cultural history. It tells the story of architect planners: that small group of men (and they were almost always all men) who redesigned Britain's inner cities in the period between social democratic post war reconstruction and what might be seen as the rise of neoliberalism.
Notă biografică
Otto Saumarez Smith is an architectural and urban historian, and is an Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of Warwick.