Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities: Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities
Autor Dr. Catherine Flinnen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iun 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350168800
ISBN-10: 1350168807
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350168807
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
The first study to integrate architectural planning with in-depth economic and social analyses of Britain's blitzed cities
Notă biografică
Catherine Flinn is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her main research interest is the impact of politics and economics on the architecture and landscape of modern Britain.
Cuprins
List of AbbreviationsList of Persons & AffiliationsList of IllustrationsPreface: In Spite of Planning1. Introduction: Did the Planners "Cut the Heart Out of our Cities"? 2. Considering Reconstruction, 1940-19453. Treasury Mandarins: The Apparatus of Postwar Economic Planning4. Central Control?: The Challenges of Postwar Physical Planning 5. Local Constraints: The Cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool 6. Postwar Rebuilding: Hopeful Plans Become Different Realities 7. Rebuilding Blitzed City Centres Despite PlanningAppendicesBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
In a very well written and exceptionally well organized book, Flinn achieves her goal: She clearly highlights the political and institutional reasons why the reconstruction plans for the blitzed cities didn't come to fruition . [For] anyone interested in a better understanding of the incredible challenges involved with rebuilding Britain after the war, I'd recommend it enthusiastically.
A meticulous, detailed account of what became of cities such as Coventry, Liverpool, Hull, Exeter and Portsmouth whose urban fabric was torn to shreds by German planes, and the ideas of the planners who sought to rebuild them ... This book [contains] extraordinary attention to detail.
A superbly researched and useful addition to the existing body of work on reconstruction.
Catherine Flinn's excellent book raises important questions that extend far beyond the reconstruction of blitzed cities, the role of planners, and the triumph of modernism over historical reimagining. It also raises questions of how limited resources were allocated after the war, how decisions were made by the local and national state, how private economic interests operated within a planned economy. Her findings will be of great interest not only to urban and architectural but also to economic, political and cultural historians of postwar Britain.
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, and the Grenfell Tower Disaster in London demonstrated that while causes of urban disaster may be simple, the consequences present major challenges. In her meticulous study, Flinn shows that the reconstruction of Britain following the air raids of World War Two saw many grand plans. Some were realized, while others were undermined by political, practical and economic constraints. Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities is essential both for our understanding of post-war British history, but also as a corrective to naive arguments that urban renewal can always be straightforward.
A meticulous, detailed account of what became of cities such as Coventry, Liverpool, Hull, Exeter and Portsmouth whose urban fabric was torn to shreds by German planes, and the ideas of the planners who sought to rebuild them ... This book [contains] extraordinary attention to detail.
A superbly researched and useful addition to the existing body of work on reconstruction.
Catherine Flinn's excellent book raises important questions that extend far beyond the reconstruction of blitzed cities, the role of planners, and the triumph of modernism over historical reimagining. It also raises questions of how limited resources were allocated after the war, how decisions were made by the local and national state, how private economic interests operated within a planned economy. Her findings will be of great interest not only to urban and architectural but also to economic, political and cultural historians of postwar Britain.
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, and the Grenfell Tower Disaster in London demonstrated that while causes of urban disaster may be simple, the consequences present major challenges. In her meticulous study, Flinn shows that the reconstruction of Britain following the air raids of World War Two saw many grand plans. Some were realized, while others were undermined by political, practical and economic constraints. Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities is essential both for our understanding of post-war British history, but also as a corrective to naive arguments that urban renewal can always be straightforward.