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What makes a great city? Why do people and businesses still value
urban life and buildings over a quiet life in the suburbs or
countryside? Now might seem a difficult time to make the case for
social contact in urban areas - so why is face-to-face contact
still considered crucial to many 21st-century economies? In a look
back over a century's-worth of thinking about cities, business and
office locations, this accessible book explains their ongoing
importance as places that thrive on face-to-face meetings, and in
negotiating uncertainty and 'sealing the deal'. Using interviews
with business leaders and staff from knowledge-intensive,
innovation-rich industries, it argues for the continuing value of
the 'right' location despite the information revolution, the
penetration of artificial intelligence (AI), and the COVID-19
pandemic. It also explores why digital systems have transformed
businesses in cities and towns, but in fact have changed
surprisingly little about the challenges of business life. This
timely book gives readers, including developers, investors,
policy-makers and students of planning or geography, essential
tools for thinking about the future of places ranging from market
towns to great World Cities.
Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities
and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of
the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades
of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and
optimistic form of housing - the cottage estates of 'corporation
suburbia'. By the early 1960s these estates provided homes with
gardens for some 3 million mainly working-class households. It was
a mammoth achievement. But, because of what then happened to
council housing over the later years of the century, this is not
very often appreciated. In Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow, Martin
Crookston suggests that making the most of the assets which this
housing offers is a positive story - it can be positive for housing
policy; for councils and their 'place-making' endeavours; and for
the residents of the estates. This is especially important when all
housing market and development options are so constrained, and
likely to remain so for the next decade or more. Following an
examination of what the estates of 'corporation suburbia' are and
what they are like, there follow chapters on specific examples from
different parts of the country, on how they are affected by the
workings of the housing market, and then - not unconnectedly - on
how attitudes to this socially-built stock have evolved. Then the
final chapters try to draw out the potentials, and to suggest what
future we might look for in corporation suburbia in the
twenty-first century.
Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian
online Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden
cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but
what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six
decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a
new and optimistic form of housing - the cottage estates of
'corporation suburbia'. By the early 1960s these estates provided
homes with gardens for some 3 million mainly working-class
households. It was a mammoth achievement. But, because of what then
happened to council housing over the later years of the century,
this is not very often appreciated. In Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow,
Martin Crookston suggests that making the most of the assets which
this housing offers is a positive story - it can be positive for
housing policy; for councils and their 'place-making' endeavours;
and for the residents of the estates. This is especially important
when all housing market and development options are so constrained,
and likely to remain so for the next decade or more. Following an
examination of what the estates of 'corporation suburbia' are and
what they are like, there follow chapters on specific examples from
different parts of the country, on how they are affected by the
workings of the housing market, and then - not unconnectedly - on
how attitudes to this socially-built stock have evolved. Then the
final chapters try to draw out the potentials, and to suggest what
future we might look for in corporation suburbia in the
twenty-first century.
What makes a great city? Why do people and businesses still value
urban life and buildings over a quiet life in the suburbs or
countryside? Now might seem a difficult time to make the case for
social contact in urban areas - so why is face-to-face contact
still considered crucial to many 21st-century economies? In a look
back over a century's-worth of thinking about cities, business and
office locations, this accessible book explains their ongoing
importance as places that thrive on face-to-face meetings, and in
negotiating uncertainty and 'sealing the deal'. Using interviews
with business leaders and staff from knowledge-intensive,
innovation-rich industries, it argues for the continuing value of
the 'right' location despite the information revolution, the
penetration of artificial intelligence (AI), and the COVID-19
pandemic. It also explores why digital systems have transformed
businesses in cities and towns, but in fact have changed
surprisingly little about the challenges of business life. This
timely book gives readers, including developers, investors,
policy-makers and students of planning or geography, essential
tools for thinking about the future of places ranging from market
towns to great World Cities.
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