Boom cities : architect planners and the politics of radical urban renewal in 1960s Britain / Otto Saumarez Smith.

'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...

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Main Author: Saumarez Smith, Otto (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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