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Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement

Autor Standish Meacham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 1999
This engaging book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, a plan to build new communities on open land that would provide a healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution. Standish Meacham argues that although the garden city movement initially embodied radical schemes for the reformation of society, it became in the hands of its upper-middle-class proponents a device for maintaining the established order in the face of threatening social change. In the complex clash between conservative and progressive impulses among garden city proponents, conservatism ultimately prevailed.

Meacham shows that even socialist architects closely associated with the movement and its most famous prewar projects at Letchworth and Hampstead relied for inspiration on the villages of England’s pre-industrial squirearchy. The result was the reaffirmation of a particular concept of Englishness that influenced both social policy and urban design.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300191493
ISBN-10: 0300191499
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 60 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

Notă biografică

Standish Meacham is Sheffield Centennial Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.