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Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to
rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World
War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought
to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who
shaped these processes. It challenges traditional views of urban
modernism and sheds new light on the importance of the immediate
post-war for the trajectory of planned urban renewal in twentieth
century. It examines plans and policies designed to produce and
govern lived spaces- shopping centers, housing estates, parks,
schools and homes - and shows how and why they succeeded or failed.
It demonstrates how the material space of the city and how people
used and experienced it was crucial in understanding historical
change in urban contexts. The book is aimed at those interested in
urban modernism, the use of space in town planning, the urban
histories of post-war Britain and of social housing. -- .
This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain
between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the
1960s. It considers the development of primarily legislative and
governmental approaches to controlling commercial signage,
billboards, posters and hoardings in rural and urban areas. This
study of how the proliferation of outdoor advertising was
dramatically curtailed serves as a means to examine how the
understanding and governance of lived spaces developed over a
century and a half. In the early-nineteenth century outdoor
adverting was just another material nuisance to regimes of
improvement; by the turn of the century it was reframed as a threat
to architecture, rural beauty and codes of moral self-governance.
In the twentieth century it disrupted visual amenity and
destabilized the civilizing influence of modern planning. More than
merely a history of a radical and largely overlooked change in the
visual environment, this is the story of how the modern state saw
and regulated the lived spaces of Britain.
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