TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saumarez Smith,Otto
TI  - Boom cities: architect planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780191873676 (ebook) :
AV  - HT169 
U1  - 307.1216094109046 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - City planning
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 'Boom Cities' is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study details the rise and fall of modernist urban planning, revealing its origins and the dissolution of the cross-party consensus, before the ideological smearing that has ever since characterized the high-rise towers, dizzying ring roads and concrete precincts that were left behind
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836407.001.0001
ER  -