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The Life and Death of the Shopping City - Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Life and Death of the Shopping City - Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Modern British Histories
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How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World
War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new
history traces the development of the post-war British city, from
the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of
modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day crisis of high
street retailing and central area economies. Alistair Kefford shows
how planners, property developers, councils and retailers worked
together to create the modern shopping city, remaking the physical
fabric, economy and experience of cities around this retail-driven
developmental model. This book also offers a wider social history
of mass affluence, showing how cities were transformed to meet the
perceived demands of a society of shoppers, and why this effort was
felt to be so urgent in an era of urban deindustrialisation. By
bringing the story of the shopping city right up to its present-day
crisis and collapse, Kefford makes clear how the historical
trajectories traced in this book continue powerfully to shape urban
Britain today.
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