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Foundations - How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Foundations - How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment
shaped the nation's politics Foundations is a history of
twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and
reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial
estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping
mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these
spaces transformed Britain's politics, economy, and society,
helping forge a midcentury developmental state and shaping the rise
of neoliberalism after 1980. From the mid-twentieth century,
spectacular new types of urban space were created in order to help
remake Britain's economy and society. Government-financed
industrial estates laid down infrastructure to entice footloose
capitalists to move to depressed regions of the country. Shopping
precincts allowed politicians to plan precisely for postwar
consumer demand. Public housing modernized domestic life and
attempted to create new communities out of erstwhile strangers. In
the latter part of the twentieth century many of these spaces were
privatized and reimagined as their developmental aims were
abandoned. Industrial estates became suburban business parks.
State-owned shopping precincts became private shopping malls. The
council estate was securitized and enclosed. New types of urban
space were imported from American suburbia, and planners and
politicians became increasingly skeptical that the built
environment could remake society. With the midcentury built
environment becoming obsolete, British neoliberalism emerged in
tense negotiation with the awkward remains of built spaces that had
to be navigated and remade. Taking readers to almost every major
British city as well as to places in the United States and
Britain's empire, Foundations highlights how some of the major
transformations of twentieth-century British history were forged in
the everyday spaces where people lived, worked, and shopped.
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